Example sentences of "[pron] set off [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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1 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
5 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |