Example sentences of "when he set off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 2 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 3 | When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed . |
| 4 | There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care . |
| 5 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 6 | Known as ‘ Puffin' since childhood because of his hooked nose , he had worked with Baird on four previous films and had just finished making The Millionairess , starring Sophia Loren , when he set off for Sweden in October 1960 . |
| 7 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |