Example sentences of "set off on [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 5 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 6 | We were glad enough that the weather seemed set fair for the remainder of our voyage and next morning set off on the last few miles of our northerly course to round the utmost tip of Shetland . |