Example sentences of "[pron] set off on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 2 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 3 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 4 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 5 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 6 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 7 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 8 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 9 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 10 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 11 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 12 | Usually in May we hire a coach and about 50 of us set off on a 3-day , 2-night hotel stay . |