Example sentences of "set [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joy and Alan set off on one of their marathon walks , this time a coast-to-coast sponsored effort to raise money for our local church , one of the oldest in North Wales . |
| 2 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 3 | Courtesy of their arrangements with Air New Zealand , ‘ Pooler ’ set off on 10th July for the land of the ruck and the long white cloud . |
| 4 | The whole detachment set off on 15 March from Siwa in the trucks of John Olivey 's Rhodesian patrol , heading for the Jebel mountains to the south of Benghazi , a journey of 400 miles . |
| 5 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 6 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 7 | The competition was postponed from 1976 , to allow for the Annan Committee , set up on 1974 , to make its report on the future of broadcasting . |
| 8 | However a special helpline for patients , set up on 0204 390999 , received 100 calls in the first couple of hours . |
| 9 | With Italian and German bombers providing air cover , the convoy set out on 5 August , carrying some 3,000 men . |
| 10 | Now we had quite a problem trying to obtain erm a bottle size the two litre size at a reasonable price when we set out on this er thing . |