Example sentences of "then set off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ . |
| 2 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 3 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 4 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 5 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 6 | She extracted him determinedly and set him down on his feet , whereupon he wobbled perilously backwards and forwards , then set off at a tremendous pace across the courtyard , with his mother following , calling apologies back to Caroline as she disappeared from view . |
| 7 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 8 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 9 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 10 | ‘ By making your legs do the work instead of your poor over-used mouth , ’ he returned drily , then set off across the field before she could reply . |
| 11 | He examined the gallery , then set off along the left-hand corridor where the men 's bedrooms were . |
| 12 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car . |
| 13 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 14 | He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith . |
| 15 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |
| 16 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 17 | Thus each evening Silene bathes her white body in the ocean , then sets off across the skies to caress her sleeping lover . |
| 18 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |