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  • Quickly my Mum grabbed my old worn coat and put it over my new one to protect it, and we set off for Rosehill Infants School.

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  • We stretched out on the rocks, I collected a handful of pebbles, we enjoyed some moments of silence and after about half an hour set off for the village by another route.

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  • Hu set off for downtown Beijing, working the phone and e-mailing from the back seat of a car, directing her staff to rent a satellite phone and get a crew to Sichuan.

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  • He added that the publication of the statements, just hours before MPs set off for their 11-week summer break, means the prime minister has "violated his own ministerial code of conduct 10 times in one day".

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  • The following day, as Mr Trimble was about to set off for Stormont Castle, where the talks are being held, and five minutes before the talks themselves began, a 400lb bomb exploded in Markethill, a mostly Protestant village in County Armagh.

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  • After trying on a few jackets -- none of which being suitable for kinky, 10-handed alien roleplay -- I set off for Nordstrom on the advice of my friend Allyson. (Dramatic pause.) Allyson is no longer allowed to give me advice.

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  • Dave Mohammad patted a yorker straight back to bowler Alfonso Thomas but inexplicably set off for a run - with Ganga firmly intent to remain at the other end - allowing Thomas to simply walk with the ball and take off the bails, and Mohammad to keep on running back to the pavilion.

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  • In 1852, he became the packer for Empress Eugenie, which set him off for founding his own company in 1854.

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