Example sentences of "set off [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron hopes to set off early next month if the boat is ready , but he could wait until August . |
| 2 | We set off upriver one hot morning in July , on the train south from Cairo . |
| 3 | After a fitful sleep I set off alone next morning in the welcome warmth of the sun to climb the higher of two small rock peaks rising to the east of the Panch Pokhari . |
| 4 | ‘ Satisfy my curiosity , ’ he said as they set off early next morning . |
| 5 | The jeep driver was pleased at the opportunity to get away for a few hours and we set off about 3 p.m. , arriving in the area of the Highland Division a short time later , after following their divisional signs along the country lanes . |
| 6 | It is usually much more successful to choose either a very pale background that contrasts with medium to dark colours , or a very dark background that sets off very pale and silvery grey shades . |
| 7 | But at least the enforced postponement saved the Germans from setting off yet another attack at half-cock . |
| 8 | The veteran climbers narrowly defeated by the 6,200-metre Jaonli in Kashmir two years ago , are setting off again this month , a little older and fitter than eve.r Sponsored by Saga magazine , the team includes Mike Banks ( 68 ) Joss Lynam ( 67 ) , Mike Westmacott , a 1953 Everest Vertan who is now 66 , Richard Brooke ( 64 ) and striplings Jim Milledge and Paddy O'Leary , 61 and 56 respectively . |
| 9 | They were mindful of Carter 's mistake at the beginning of his term in setting off too many policy hares at the cost of a focused programme with a clear sense of priorities . |
| 10 | Whatever stage of development any of the peoples of Siberia had reached , the occupation of their land by the Russians had a profound effect , either setting off entirely new social developments or accelerating trends which were already present . |
| 11 | But he was still not suffering from his hypmaniacal attack — he now believed the Mafia were after him — and when the ambulance stopped at Tottenham Court Road , a quarter of a mile away , he leapt out and set off again naked down the street . |