Example sentences of "[be] setting [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or suppose you 're setting off on a driving tour of Spain and you do n't speak the language . |
| 2 | When you go and buy your ticket and you 're setting off on that day |
| 3 | Still no acknowledgement was made and it grew near the time when Gigia would be setting out on her journey . |
| 4 | He was aware that they could be setting out on a wild-goose chase , but he had to believe that they were n't . |
| 5 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 6 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 7 | ‘ Now you are setting off on mad expeditions . ’ |
| 8 | She is one of three Guinness people who are setting off on the Raleigh scheme next year — the other two work at Guinness Ireland and at head office in Portman Square . |
| 9 | hello there … today we 've come east to the far east for our Central South sport … we 're in Nepal with some local pioneers who are setting off on the first ever Kathmandu marathon … before we run we have join our football parade … |
| 10 | MOST of Europe 's unmarried royals are setting off on a cruise on Norway 's fjords next week , giving hopes for at least one blue-blooded romance . |
| 11 | David Dunbar and his team from Aid Unlimited are setting off on September 15 with a 12-ton lorry packed with vital supplies for orphanages in Arad , Tamisura , and Tackash . |
| 12 | The research and development phase of the work is nearly complete and the Dip CITT trainers and their students are setting out on their journey . |
| 13 | The Pope , a conservative whose grip on the reins of power has never been firmer , is setting off on a tour of the Far East on Friday . |
| 14 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 15 | A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " . |
| 16 | Pearce and Duvall were blurred figures beside the wreck , distinguishable only in that Duvall was carrying the paraffin containers , which he was setting down on the pavement . |