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 . |