Example sentences of "we set off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 2 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 3 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 4 | and eventually hauled me aboard as we set off for Blackpool . |
| 5 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 6 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 7 | After a pause to coil up the heavy ropes we set off for Gimmer . |
| 8 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 9 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 10 | However , prizegiving was only about half an hour later than planned and we set off for home at a reasonable hour . |
| 11 | The following morning we set off for Verona . |
| 12 | We set off for the ‘ shoot ’ on what turned out to be a dull , damp and extremely grey day , to Ickworth House and gardens — a National Trust property — near Bury St. Edmunds . |
| 13 | At 10:16 we boarded the Sprinter on platform one.Then we set off for Shrewsbury : |
| 14 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 15 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 16 | Fond farewells exchanged , we set off for home , our brains buzzing with new and exciting ideas to bring back to Wales ’ . |
| 17 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 18 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 19 | We set off at ten , collected Coconut and bowled along to the woods . |
| 20 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 21 | We set off at 4.30am . |
| 22 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 23 | Armed with wooden swords , cardboard breast plates , and now shields , we set off with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 24 | However conditions seemed promising in the morning and we set off with lunch packs in our bags and hope in our hearts ! on the two-hour boat run there are always lots of birds to look at , and soon after we left ‘ the narrows ’ of the harbour entrance we were aware of black-browed albatrosses . |
| 25 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 26 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 27 | Armed with a canal guide and a confidence inspiring wave from Roger we set off on our gentle adventure . |
| 28 | At about midnight we set off on our way back to Hal Far . |
| 29 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 30 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |