Example sentences of "as he set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quick thinking on the part of the father will soon have him sprinting after the runaway , and similarly quick thinking on the part of the camera operator will result in a cut from the distant child to one of the rescuer as he sets off . |
| 2 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 3 | but only for a second as he sets off |
| 4 | The smile disappeared , his head fell and , as he set off to catch up with his children and dog who were racing ahead . |
| 5 | A fifty-pound bomb , planted in his fishing boat , exploded as he set off out of the little harbour of Mullaghmore to inspect lobster pots . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know what 's got into you , May , ’ he shouted , shaking his fist in the air as he set off in pursuit . |
| 7 | ‘ It does n't look anything like it does on TV , ’ said Craig Parry 's caddy as he set off with his man and Wayne Grady down the 10th in practice . |
| 8 | RACEHORSE Desert Orchid was cheered as he set off home yesterday after a life-saving operation . |
| 9 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 10 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 11 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 12 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |
| 13 | He shivered a little as he set off for home . |
| 14 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , ’ she said nervously , and watched , hands tightly clasped as he set off . |
| 16 | ‘ Thank you , ’ he said through gritted teeth as he set off down the corridor . |
| 17 | He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house . |
| 18 | Without time to do more than yell in protest as he set off , Sarella launched herself after him and did her utmost to keep pace . |