Example sentences of "he set [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal . |
2 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
3 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
4 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
5 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |