Example sentences of "[adv] to set [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ?
2 A final technical point on audio versus video recording : it takes no longer to set up for a simple video recording than it does to position a microphone for an audio recording .
3 She looked as if she were about to set off for a provincial cocktail party , an office party of female executives .
4 Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday .
5 Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other .
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