Sentence examples for decided to set off from inspiring English sources

I decided to set off early to do some weeding at the allotment.

Unable to obtain more French aid, Charles decided to set off on his own to regain the crown.

Wilson, ignoring his doctor's advice, decided to set off across the country and present his argument to the American people.

It was only once we passed the finish line that we found out what had happened: after hearing the race was cancelled, those at the front decided to set off anyway, ignoring the attempts of police to shorten the route.

The police in Finland said they might never know why Petri Gerdt, a 19-year-old college student obsessed with explosions and with the late gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur, decided to set off a bomb on Oct. 11 in a crowded shopping mall north of Helsinki.

Recently I decided to set off solo around Britain in pursuit of otter sightings – I'd never witnessed a real one in the wild and my first port of call was the west coast of Scotland where the elusive mammal is easier to see.

And so he decides to set off for South Africa, just as Kipling had- and, for that matter, Arthur Conan Doyle.

One morning, invigorated by the absolute thrill of idleness, we decide to set off with a donkey to see what we can see, following what the Tudors describe as "a walk of about an hour to Nowhere In Particular".

Its plot, more or less, is this: In the wake of Jack's death, Will and Hand decide to set off on an around-the-world tour to give away $32,000 -- money that Will has received, unexpectedly, after serving as a model for a light bulb company's logo.

Based on these results, we decided to set a cut-off value of 5% for all the probes to reduce the incidence of false-positive results.

However, for the screening test, we decided to set the cut-off at an ODP value of 30% because we wanted to detect recently infected animals displaying a weak antibody reaction below the normal cut-off and additionally test them for BTV by real-time RT-PCR.