Example sentences of "i set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I set off at 5 am but those Sussex lanes are pitch dark , and hilly ! |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 34 | But once you have unfolded an ordnance survey map and made the cheese and pickle sandwiches , it 's hard to change your mind , and so on a hot June day I set off up the zig-zagging tourist path from Glen Nevis at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 35 | I set off up the stairs . |
| 36 | Once I had unpacked , I set off down the lane to have a look at the Round Tower before dark . |
| 37 | Bright and early next morning , I set off down the lane to work , my drawing pad and pens in my jauntily swinging plastic bag . |
| 38 | So , this morning I set off down Lennox Gardens , the Street with No Name , and then into Rumsey Road . |
| 39 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 40 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 41 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 42 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 43 | I set off in pursuit . |
| 44 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 45 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 46 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 47 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |
| 50 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 54 | So Tom , the A to Z and I set out on ‘ a voyage of discovery into the vast unknown ’ … |
| 55 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 56 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 57 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 58 | But it passed , quicker than any marsh fever , as I set out on my journey to Berlin — and was replaced by emotion , by the accession of innumerable sensitivities , not without their pivotal elements of pain . |
| 59 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 60 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |