Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 3 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 4 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 5 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 6 | Business Post , the express mail and parcel carrier went to TEC Consultants for advice when it set out on the path of getting its network accredited two years ago . |
| 7 | The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them . |