Example sentences of "set off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
| 2 | Following two days ' rest Venables and Renshaw set off for a final attempt taking a more direct line , avoiding sections of 70 degree snow and ice by passages of rock and mixed climbing . |
| 3 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 4 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |
| 5 | Wilcock set off for the New World . |
| 6 | After a few minutes Crabb returned to the jetty for some extra weights to overcome his buoyancy and , having fitted these to his satisfaction , set off for the Russian cruiser . |
| 7 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 8 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 9 | Rather later than planned Rain set off for the Old Mitre pub . |
| 10 | Mrs Major 's party set off for the northern half of the seat to goad the faithful and stir the idle while Mr Major toured the south . |
| 11 | The day was held for customers and staff who in groups of three , set off for an 18-hole Stableford competition ( I 'm told this will mean something to golfers ! ) |
| 12 | We know from Gen Shandruk 's memoirs that on 10 May , the day after the division had been recorded by 6 Armoured Division as having surrendered near Volkermarkt , the two generals , Shandruk and Freytag , set off with a small group to reach the US Zone , leaving behind some 10,000 men under Col Krat . |
| 13 | The bearer set off along the wide , dusty street . |
| 14 | They left their luggage in the booking-office — which looked more like a chickencoop than anything else — and set off down the muddy track that the ancient porter had indicated . |
| 15 | He chuckled quietly and set off towards the feeding animals . |
| 16 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 17 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 18 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |
| 19 | With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went . |
| 20 | She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead . |
| 21 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 22 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 23 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |
| 24 | The lady accompanies him back to the Alps , to wait and worry as he and his partner , Hansi Kirchner , set off up the virgin North Face of Versücherin . |
| 25 | He declined the offer of a lift home , wished me an interesting journey , and set off through a light Prague drizzle . |
| 26 | So very early one morning when the wind was a moderate westerly and made northward progress easy , Creggan set off over the great industrial cities to find the high ground beyond them that he sensed would be there . |
| 27 | When we reached the farm the track ran out , so we had a word with the farmer , a friend of Brian 's , and set off over the open fields . |
| 28 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 29 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 30 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |