Example sentences of "and set off [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Meredith backed out slowly to avoid other shoppers making for their cars with their overladen squeaky trolleys and set off out of town . |
2 | The waiter gave the slightest of bows , turned and set off back to the café . |
3 | When I opened my eyes , it had got colder , so I stood up , brushed off my blazer and set off back to the Gendarmerie . |
4 | We packed up all our kit again and set off back to Orange , across the frozen landscape of southern France , which was having one of the coldest winters in living memory . |
5 | Then they lifted the wide metal pans of washing on to their heads and set off back to their villages , erect along white lanes , their clothes a bright flash of colour in the green landscape . |
6 | She stopped for a moment to brush the dust from her hands and clothes and set off back to the house . |
7 | ‘ I 'll be as quick as I can , ’ he said to Bernice and set off back down the passageway with Rosheen . |
8 | After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck . |
9 | Then he got off and set off back towards Slough . |