Example sentences of "we set off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 2 | We set off at ten , collected Coconut and bowled along to the woods . |
| 3 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 4 | Armed with wooden swords , cardboard breast plates , and now shields , we set off with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 5 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 6 | Next morning , after a leisurely start , we set off across bare rock beds from our base camp beneath the steep snow slopes of the Mera La . |
| 7 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |