Example sentences of "[noun] set off " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 2 | At last the great day arrived , and 17 players and supporters set off for England . |
| 3 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 4 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 5 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 6 | The police had blocked this way and the marchers set off along Duke Street , trying to find another way onto the bridge . |
| 7 | Recovering the fluid link device from the TARDIS the time-travellers set off once more . |
| 8 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 9 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 10 | He was deadly serious , and the expression in his eyes set off her early warning system . |
| 11 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 12 | FOUR people were killed and 17 injured when a gang of blacks set off hand grenades and sprayed a South African golf club with bullets . |
| 13 | The huge ammunition wagons set off for the crossroads , their massive iron-rimmed wheels digging great gouges into the road 's surface . |
| 14 | Subtle metallic sheens and bold black spots and lines set off with red areas of finnage , combine to produce a truly pretty fish . |
| 15 | As Armstrong was riding homewards along the river bank at the end of the session , a group of English horsemen set off in pursuit , captured him , and bore him off to imprisonment in Carlisle castle . |
| 16 | , export manager at Courtaulds Coatings in New Zealand , met fellow winner , manager of the trade and retail paint division at Courtaulds International ( Brazil ) , in Hobart when the yachts set off on February 13 . |
| 17 | It also has a very attractive promenade and a small harbour from where boats set off to go up and down the lake . |
| 18 | Crops are harvested almost without sweat , boats set off on journeys with full sails , celebrations are carried off with style and decorum . |
| 19 | The scene is the Ritz Club , the prototype of a sophisticated Thirties nightclub in dazzling primary colours set off by a sleek black bar . |
| 20 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 21 | The cameras clicked , the reporters reached for their notebooks , the Principal and Lord James Douglas-Hamilton ascended in a crane to unveil a sign and descended to be met by ‘ Alison ’ the Kissogram girl , toasts were made , balloons set off and Napier University was born on 15 June 1992 in an atmosphere of razzmatazz and celebration . |
| 22 | Left to right Pushing through the bracken at nant yr Annell ; the briefing before the cyclists set off ; outstripping Shanks 's pony |
| 23 | The two groups set off across the desert westwards towards Ghadames . |
| 24 | On Boxing Day most families set off for their main summer holiday , heading either for campsites in the bush or at the beach . |
| 25 | The teams set off from Liverpool for Beaune in France on the sponsored run that will raise thousands of pounds for the Macmillan Nurse Appeal , now nearing its target to fund four new hospital support Macmillan Nurses on Merseyside . |
| 26 | Then the teams set off for home bringing this year 's Beaujolais Nouveau by the shortage mileage from Beaune to Liverpool . |
| 27 | From Scotland Yard , Nigel Cramer and six officers set off in two patrol cars , their sirens howling up Whitehall and down the Mall to pick up Park Lane and the road north out of London . |
| 28 | TWO Britons set off yesterday on the first trans-atlantic hot-air balloon race . |
| 29 | Hollywood was the biggest carnival he had ever seen and he was like a box of fireworks set off all at once . |
| 30 | First thing this morning campaigners set off for London , and Downing Street . |