Example sentences of "set off towards the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 2 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 3 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 4 | He set off towards the buses . |
| 5 | When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed . |
| 6 | Eventually the little bus was summoned again , and we jumped in thankfully and set off towards the plane , only to grind to a halt at Operations again . |
| 7 | As his lad let him go , he set off towards the start flat out with his mouth open and his nose in the air . |
| 8 | I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train . |
| 9 | By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs . |
| 10 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 11 | Julia set off towards the Dorsoduro , beginning to feel really ill with a headache pounding behind her left eyebrow , smarting eyes , a rasped throat and a nose that felt as though it were stuffed with hot , wet flannel with a few pins in it , but even so she decided to give her lesson . |
| 12 | She set off towards the junction to the left . |
| 13 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 14 | He chuckled quietly and set off towards the feeding animals . |
| 15 | She was aware that he stood watching her as she set off towards the exit . |
| 16 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |
| 17 | He set off towards the canal , leaving Robbie — as usual , she fumed — to scurry after him . |
| 18 | The theft did not interfere with the good relations between the two men , however , and Gould , having secured a place on Sturt 's forthcoming expedition to South Australia , set off towards the Liverpool Plains , north of Sydney . |
| 19 | He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house . |