Example sentences of "set off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 2 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
| 3 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 4 | On the contrary , all seemed set fair , and when they had loaded the packing-cases on to the cart Matey and McAllister set off for the church hall , to lay out the stall , to have everything ready for the afternoon 's visitors , Dr Neil having promised to come along to help them . |
| 5 | We put on our képis , straightened our ties , pulled our fingers into regulation gloves and set off for the guardhouse . |
| 6 | Miaow , thought Jenny as young Curtis stood up awkwardly and set off for the bar , turning after a couple of steps to ask , ‘ What do you want ? ’ |
| 7 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 8 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 9 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |
| 10 | Val set off for the interior in the best of the hire cars available , a well worn seat with grudging breaks , and drove alone on empty roads through a barren and alien territory . |
| 11 | Joseph set off for the door but Rain got there first . |
| 12 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 13 | The colonel set off for the airport with the general in custody . |
| 14 | When he had gone , Arty , smiling to himself at what he considered a victory , got out of bed and set off for the bathroom to wash his hair . |
| 15 | We got some torches together and set off for the graveyard . |
| 16 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 17 | Early that afternoon , as soon as she could get away from a lunch with colleagues from her department , Loretta set off for the Sunday Herald building . |
| 18 | At matches he had to be watched like a hawk in case he wriggled out of his headcollar , and set off for the tea tent , where his doleful yellow face and black-ringed eyes could coax sandwiches and cake out of the most stony-hearted waitress . |
| 19 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 20 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 21 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 22 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 23 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 24 | The aircraft-carrier Clemenceau , though it set off for the Gulf and its movements were followed initially by Le Monde , returned to Toulon in October after a 55-day voyage . |
| 25 | She combed her hair , applied her make-up and set off for the Post Office . |
| 26 | No idea what time Vern set off for the bus , but it must be time for the next one by now . |
| 27 | Ian Quinnell and Ian Gadbury , who both work for United Carriers at Mill Lane , set off with a lorry laden with relief supplies . |
| 28 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 29 | The piano and violin set off with the air of those ready to bask in the music 's warmth , and it seemed that , for once , this awkward , unbalanced work — for it is unsatisfactory , not just in its instrumentation , but in its musical make-up — might be entirely convincing . |
| 30 | At last he turned north again , his dog still running at his heels , and set off to a village just outside London . |