Example sentences of "he set off [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train .
2 But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm .
3 With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op .
4 He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him .
5 Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences .
6 He sets off after the brothers , succeeds in imitating Haimet , and relieves Barat of his burden .
7 He set off along the side of the building .
8 He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea .
9 He set off towards the buses .
10 When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed .
11 As his lad let him go , he set off towards the start flat out with his mouth open and his nose in the air .
12 He set off towards the canal , leaving Robbie — as usual , she fumed — to scurry after him .
13 He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house .
14 There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care .
15 So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry .
16 But the pressure in his bladder was growing , and he set off across the square in search of a public toilet .
17 He set off across the marble lake at a canter , with Helen panting behind .
18 He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo .
19 He set off at a brisk walk .
20 He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled .
21 From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi .
22 He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets .
23 He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon .
24 Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier .
25 He set off on a ‘ Grand Tour ’ of Europe , following directions and advice from his friend Andrew Balfour ( later published posthumously as Letters to a Friend ) .
26 Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau .
27 Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago .
28 At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood .
29 He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster .
30 As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall .
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