Sentence examples for has just set off from inspiring English sources
A FACT-FINDING mission of "eminent persons", sent by the UN secretary-general, has just set off for Algeria.
10.49am GMT Cameron statement David Cameron has just set off from No 10 to the Commons to deliver his statement to MPs on the hostage crisis.
He has just set off on a trip to Japan; on his return we plan to complete a new CD, make a short tour of France, then give a series of farewell gigs in the UK.
In "The Association of Small Bombs" (Viking), Karan Mahajan's second novel, Shaukat (Shockie) Guru, a Kashmiri terrorist, considers the explosion he has just set off at a busy market in Delhi and glumly concludes that it "was all anticlimax".
Comedy A canal boat called the Pleasance Ahoy has just set off from London to travel to the Edinburgh Festival for Tall Tales from the Riverbanks, a series of pop-up comedy gigs and digital events broadcast along the way, featuring comedians including Reginald D. Hunter and Jarred Christmas.
Like Ranevskaya, Ms Neyolova lives most of the time in Paris, which adds an edge to her depiction of a character torn between the Russian provinces and France.The production, which has just set off to the United States on tour, restores the social contours to the play, the only one in which Chekhov gives the servants a say and lets them openly mock their masters.
Unknown to the islanders on Rongelap, some 150 kilometers away, at Bikini Atoll, the United States had just set off a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb.
On August bank holiday Monday 1979 the family had just set off aboard Mountbatten's boat, Shadow V, from the village of Mullaghmore, when the bomb detonated around 1130.
No one even looked at me, save for one barista who gave me a quick smile (which may or may not have been related to the fact that I was the idiot who had just set off an alarm loud enough to disrupt any and all conversation).
I sure wanted to shoot the bastard that had just set the I.E.D. off.
