I'm setting off

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

This summer I'm setting off on a street performing tour of the United States.

This summer I'm setting off on a Busk Across America trip.

"I'm as enthusiastic about this Paris weekend as I was setting off for Australia or going to Dublin for the grand slam last year," he says.

I had got into a scuffle in work exchange, where they said I was setting off the metal detector and went through all my stuff.

In the mid-1970s I was setting off from my West Berlin hotel toward the train into East Berlin, when the writer Jerzy Kosinski begged me not to go beyond the Brandenburg Gate.

This summer, I am setting off to answer some of these questions as I take my music/busking act across America.

I was setting off on the first day of a trip as a BP reporter, planning to seek out and write about some of the people most immediately affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

An incident happened where I was set off into a "negative" emotion; we'll call it a "charge".

But it was set off by a bureaucratic oversight.

Though my trip from England has been booked for weeks and I've got it in print that I'll be setting off the next day on a three-day boat expedition, it seems there is no one else scheduled to travel then, so I cannot go.

Little did they know that 20 years later I would be setting off on a 9,000-mile 9,000-mile India.