Example sentences of "set off [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | In 1954 I was eight and every Saturday morning I would set off to the movies with my first boyfriend , ten year old Skippy . |
2 | However , after about half an hour , some of the smell chemicals have started to evaporate creating an odour gradient , and the dog can set off on the trail . |
3 | The schoolboy team will set off at the end of the month . |
4 | Should she set off down the hill to meet him ? |
5 | The two rafts will set off down the river at ten o'clock , each holding eight plus a guide . |
6 | As she 'd set off down the drive her one thought had been that perhaps it was n't too late . |
7 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |
8 | From Reading station one could set off round the world . |