Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The balloons , which set off from Maine on the US East Coast , were moving last night towards Newfoundland . |
| 2 | The dacha was owned by a doctor who , Vasili reasoned , would be able to snap Lena out of her trance ; then the two of them could set off for Tula on the banks of the River Don where they would lie low until , with time , the investigation wound down . |
| 3 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 4 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 5 | Hardly a week passed without Anna Essinger setting off for London on a fund raising mission , invariably returning with promises to sponsor more refugee children . |
| 6 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |
| 7 | They 're setting off across Cirencester on a daily journey , carrying a little bit of their garden with them . |
| 8 | Rosemary will be teaching others her skills in creating a market stall complete with special effects in the form of ‘ rosy ’ apples and ‘ muddy ’ parsnips at the Women 's Institute 's Denman College in Marcham before setting out for Staffordshire on a dolls-house holiday ! |
| 9 | This time the expedition was sea-borne , setting out from Gravesend on a paddle-steamer hired for the occasion , but the landing at Boulogne was no more successful in rousing public support than the previous attempt at Strasbourg and by the evening of 6 August Louis-Napoleon was once again under arrest . |
| 10 | But it was precisely Gould 's unshakeable commonsense , which Havell had so reviled , that was beginning to antagonise the rival American camp , and it was with exasperation that they watched Gould set off for Europe on a reconnoitring trip for his second publication . |
| 11 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 12 | The American Consul-General in Port of Spain granted Stewart an emergency visa for his dash through Caracas and on to New York , and Stewart set off at dawn on the Tuesday , hoping to reach Ayresome Park in time for the replay on Saturday . |
| 13 | The 106 entrants in the gruelling marathon set off from London on a route which took them through Europe to Turkey in classic cars ranging from a Ford Cortina to a Russian Moskvitch , all at least 25 years old . |
| 14 | With Leoncico snapping genially at his heels , with a force of 190 Spaniards and with several hundred more local guides and porters embarked on a fleet of nine canoes and a small ship named the Chapinera , Balboa set out for Acla on the morning of Thursday , 1 September 1513 . |
| 15 | In the second week of August , filled by an idealistic vision of their future lives on the banks of the Susquehannah , Coleridge and Southey set out from Bristol on a walking tour into Somerset . |