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 .
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