Example sentences of "[conj] then set off on " in BNC.
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1 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
2 | He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith . |
3 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
4 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
5 | Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book . |