Example sentences of "[verb] off on [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens .
2 Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps .
3 Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home .
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 The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge .
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