Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 2 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 3 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 4 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 5 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 6 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 7 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 8 | In Siam , Thomson teamed up with a journalist called Kennedy , and , together with a large entourage , they set off on a perilous journey to Cambodia . |
| 9 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 10 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 11 | A spokesman for Rothmans , who have factories in Darlington and Spennymoor , said : ‘ We are a major employer in County Durham and it seemed natural to support the team as it sets off on a new challenge as a first-class county . |
| 12 | But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm . |
| 13 | With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op . |
| 14 | He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal . |
| 15 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 18 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 19 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 20 | He set off on a ‘ Grand Tour ’ of Europe , following directions and advice from his friend Andrew Balfour ( later published posthumously as Letters to a Friend ) . |
| 21 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 22 | Usually in May we hire a coach and about 50 of us set off on a 3-day , 2-night hotel stay . |