Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] set off on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left-winger Darren Junee brilliantly slipped round his marker , James Reynolds , just before half-time and set off on a jinking run down the left wing . |
| 2 | After lunch , either from members ' own nosebags or from the Museum café , we reboarded our coach and set off on a magical mystery tour in search of Butterley and the M.R.C. It is quite fun ‘ turning round ’ on a fairly busy main road in a large coach ! |
| 3 | Dara fled back to Agra and set off on the road to Delhi without daring to face his father . |
| 4 | On Monday , 6 September 1773 , Boswell and Johnson left the home of Sir Alexander Macdonald and set off on horseback to a staging-post near their embarkation point for Raasay . |
| 5 | She had walked out of the corner-shop and set off on the primrose path , which led rapidly downhill . |
| 6 | So they made their bold little crosses in the register and set off on their adventure . |
| 7 | The following day she caught an early train from King 's Cross station and set off on the two-hundred-mile journey north . |
| 8 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |
| 9 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
| 10 | She went to the stone sink , scrubbed her hands under the single cold tap and set off on her perambulations again , slowly circling the big pine table , moving in and out of the gibbous pool of light shed by the candles . |
| 11 | Dare to dream , shrug off any criticism or doubt and set off on the journey that you hope will eventually take you to a better world . |