Example sentences of "i set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After a second teatime breakfast in a café , I set off without delay for Kenny 's Bookshop . |
2 | I set off to Khan Market to buy something for my headache , only to find the roads were clogged with white Ambassadors dressed up as Christmas trees . |
3 | ‘ Watch out ! ’ you yelled as I set off on holiday . |
4 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
5 | After dropping Martin and Lucy off at Vidlin , I set off for home . |
6 | Everyone knows that in fact you can get organised — so — leaving the family , animals and business I set off for Avery Hill College . |
7 | I set off for Duxford cursing . |
8 | With the drinks set out and the food at the ready , I set off with Caroline , who had arrived from Denmark the night before . |
9 | Val and I set off with intentions to watch the jumps , but the Skippers road to the bridge is specifically excluded from motor insurance policies and when we saw it , we understood why ; it 's a dirt track along a precipice . |
10 | The farmer 's wife has kindly pressed my kilt and I set off into town with a small group of Commandos , all of us determined to enjoy ourselves , and , of course , to sort out the local French girls . |
11 | So , this morning I set off down Lennox Gardens , the Street with No Name , and then into Rumsey Road . |
12 | I set off in pursuit . |
13 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
14 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
15 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
16 | After a shop at Sainsburys in Camden Town and a quick cold meat and salad lunch I set off by Tube to Finsbury Circus to one of the big offices of BP for a Management and Membership Committee meeting of the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
17 | The day after I got back from Moscow , I set out for Philadelphia , where I was due to receive a medal from the Franklin Institute . |
18 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
19 | On 9 November 1984 I set out for consultation a list of branded drugs which would no longer be prescribed under the health service . |
20 | The first evening we left the children with some of the helpers and my husband , David , and I set out to Mass at the convent . |
21 | I still have a note of the objectives for the review I set out at Wilton Park : |
22 | I set out in May 1985 to write a feature for the Financial Times about this man apparently rich enough with his two brothers to pay £615m in cash for the House of Fraser . |