Example sentences of "off on the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
2 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
3 | The eggs remain in the damp sand , safe from marine predators , until they hatch out fifteen days later and swim off on the next high spring tide . |
4 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
5 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |