Example sentences of "to set [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 2 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 3 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 4 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 5 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 6 | For an artist to travel is to set out on a visual adventure which may or may not end in fulfilment . |
| 7 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |