Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 2 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 3 | And so it came to pass that when we broke up for the summer holidays in 1941 , I set off on my bike to the farmer 's new settlement . |
| 4 | A British supporter thrust a Union Jack into my hand and I set off on my lap of honour , the first British sprinter to win the title in forty years , the first black man ever to win it . |
| 5 | ‘ Watch out ! ’ you yelled as I set off on holiday . |
| 6 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 7 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 8 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 9 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 10 | So Tom , the A to Z and I set out on ‘ a voyage of discovery into the vast unknown ’ … |
| 11 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 12 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 13 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 14 | But it passed , quicker than any marsh fever , as I set out on my journey to Berlin — and was replaced by emotion , by the accession of innumerable sensitivities , not without their pivotal elements of pain . |
| 15 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 16 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 17 | Ligachev argued that collective and state farms were still the backbone of the system and that most peasants did not want to leave them to set up on their own . |
| 18 | I accept that there has been a steady concentration of power in the hands of large , sophisticated and diversified publishing companies , yet it is still possible for you or me to set up on our own , and publish highly professional and innovative books from our own back bedroom at very little cost . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Try to make sure that the three of you go for walks together , taking it in turns to hold her lead , and when you set off on your own , avoid any big ‘ goodbye ’ fussing . |
| 21 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 22 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 23 | Because the subject is practically useful and will stand you in good stead when you set out on your chosen career . |
| 24 | But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all . |
| 25 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 26 | She was only 28 when she set up on her own in 1976 , after starting her career as a researcher . |
| 27 | The room was silent as she scrabbled in her box of pieces and , from the very bottom , produced a couple that she set down on the board with two decisive clicks . |
| 28 | In 1930 she set off on her first solo long distance flight and broke the record from England to Australia . |
| 29 | THE husband of Julie Godwin told last night how he kissed her goodbye as she set off on her fateful holiday to South Africa . |
| 30 | Combining the public relations exercise of showing herself to her people with the need to exhibit her legal powers , she set off on court circuits or justice eyres which inevitably had to include the crime-ridden Borders . |