Example sentences of "set off " in BNC.
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| 1 | As promised , one of the project workers gave me an early shake and I had time enough for a coffee before I needed to set off to meet Jenny . |
| 2 | Some work on electronic beams , while others are activated by air movement — just opening the door can be enough to set off this type . |
| 3 | She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives . |
| 4 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 5 | To set off the blues , I used white Shasta daisies , white bergenias and the silver foliage of pearly everlasting , Anaphalis cinnamomea . |
| 6 | In the summer , blues and pinks predominate but there are always plenty of white flowers , especially the white forms of cosmos and Campanula persicifolia , to set off the other colours . |
| 7 | Finally , do n't forget the value of such structural objects as walls , containers , raised beds or even large boulders sited to set off the plants . |
| 8 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 9 | Emerson noticed this propensity of flags to make ordinary people ‘ poets and mystics ’ , to set off a tingle in the blood ; and flags were festooned round Iran-contra like bunting , exceedingly hard Brought to trial , the players could not believe that their love for their country had caused them to commit crimes ; and the light penalties handed down to all these men , with only Poindexter receiving a jail sentence , suggested that the judges , to some degree , accepted patriotism in mitigation . |
| 10 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 11 | She 'll be wanting to set off just as soon as she 's finished her breakfast . ’ |
| 12 | The Russians ' forte is pageantry , yet somehow , on these rare sightings in the West , the gaudiness seemed to set off and magnified the melancholy and finesse of their leading dancers . |
| 13 | Explosives experts were planning to set off mines to destroy the underground conduits which keep the lava from cooling and solidifying before it reaches inhabited areas farther down the mountain . |
| 14 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 15 | At the time Jeanne was fascinated by Foujita , the diminutive Japanese artist , who wore gold ear-rings to set off his owl-shaped face and a toga he had woven himself under the influence of Raymond Duncan 's Greek worship . |
| 16 | But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath . |
| 17 | If the wind is blowing directly onshore , you should also work out which is the best tack to set off on . |
| 18 | The day they were due to set off for France , Shanti had a swathe of her black curly hair bleached and dyed crimson . |
| 19 | She was the last passenger to set off across the tracks , laden with parcels from her shopping trip , and the little boy tagging along behind . |
| 20 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 21 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 22 | To set off your sensual new style you may have to re-think you make-up . |
| 23 | Bear in mind that we can keep changing our goals — but unless we have a destination in mind , we are unlikely to set off at all . |
| 24 | When it was time to set off again , there was a lot of noisy discussion , live chickens in baskets were moved and we were ushered into the front window seat across from the driver so we could see the view together . |
| 25 | It would have been easier to set off in the daylight but it was n't possible . |
| 26 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
| 27 | The matter has now come to the High Court for an Order that this is the position and the High Court has ruled that companies and directors are entitled to set off deposits they held at BCCI against company overdrafts ( see Financial Times , 28/29 November 1992 ) . |
| 28 | The general policy is to set off overpayments in the manner that is most advantageous to the taxpayer . |
| 29 | PT Ltd claimed that it was entitled to set off the tax that should have been deducted against the rent due on 25 March 1991 and failed to pay the rent . |
| 30 | There was a large gap beneath Mildred 's door , and she decided to set off and find someone to help her . |