Example sentences of "and [verb] off on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
2 | The eggs remain in the damp sand , safe from marine predators , until they hatch out fifteen days later and swim off on the next high spring tide . |
3 | We smoke a bit of skag , feel better and nod off on the tweedy settee before the heater . |
4 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
5 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |
6 | The following day she caught an early train from King 's Cross station and set off on the two-hundred-mile journey north . |