Example sentences of "[pers pn] set off on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 2 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 3 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 4 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 5 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 6 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 7 | In Siam , Thomson teamed up with a journalist called Kennedy , and , together with a large entourage , they set off on a perilous journey to Cambodia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A spokesman for Rothmans , who have factories in Darlington and Spennymoor , said : ‘ We are a major employer in County Durham and it seemed natural to support the team as it sets off on a new challenge as a first-class county . |
| 10 | But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |