Example sentences of "[conj] he set [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 2 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 3 | He had completed his articles with James Edmeston of Bishopsgate before he was twenty , and was involved in several large building projects including Hungerford Market and the Fishmongers Hall ( 1831–4 ) when he worked for Henry Roberts , before he set up on his own . |
| 4 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 5 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |