Example sentences of "set off [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 2 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 3 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 4 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 5 | He and Cooper then set off to get the other boat , which they discovered to their fury was also defective . |
| 6 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 7 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 8 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 9 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
| 10 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 11 | A peasant catches two partridges , takes them home to his wife to cook and sets off to invite the village priest to join them . |
| 12 | To do her best and help other people , to think of others before herself , to do a good turn every day , to lend a hand — she was only partly keeping the Promise , the Law and the Motto by setting off to save the Brownies ' van from what could be a nasty mishap . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's not a soul from the council been to see it , ’ he says , before setting off to find the Tory . |
| 14 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 15 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 16 | The hardest job of the ‘ Northern Lights Festival ’ on Radio 4 fell to Kaleidoscope in Greenland , where Paul Allen set off to examine the arts scene , heaven help him . |
| 17 | He subsequently set off to explore the county on foot as far as Lands End and his notes show that his book , had it been written , would have contained some far-fetched fantasies — as well as straight inaccuracies . |
| 18 | She finished her coffee , and set off to explore the town . |
| 19 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 20 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 21 | So the arrival at the Grand Quay of that famous pirate ship the ‘ Black Pig ’ caused no excitement , and Captain Pugwash , the Mate , Barnabas , Willy and Tom the cabin boy attracted little attention as they stepped down the gangplank and set off to view the sights of the town . |
| 22 | He carried on past and found a place to pull off the road , and then he collected together his flashlight and a roll of tools and set off to walk the short distance back . |
| 23 | Shelley made up her mind , and set off to walk the quarter of a mile . |
| 24 | We tricoteuses of the press who set off to crisscross the country with Mr Major in his campaign plane and bus , many packed lunches ago , accompanied a diffident , decent figure presented in a soft-sell promotional film as a man with whom ordinary people could identify . |
| 25 | Yet when news reached Jedburgh that Bothwell was lying seriously wounded in his Liddesdale stronghold of Hermitage , Mary set off to ride the 50 miles there and back in a day . |
| 26 | Armed with a lamp , Dyson set off to check the connection . |
| 27 | He immediately set off to hand the purse and its contents into the Clansford club office and there he found a distressed but very grateful Mrs Edie Moon ( 82 ) , Clansford 's oldest supporter . |
| 28 | He ordered Sergeant Yates to take the bulk of the party to the rendezvous , while he himself set off to reconnoitre the escarpment with Sergeant Tait . |
| 29 | ‘ She said she thought Dick and Joy had forgotten they were to pick her up , so she set off to catch the bus . ’ |