Example sentences of "[adv] he set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And so he sets off on foot , aiming nowhere .
2 Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot .
3 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 .
4 Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him .
5 From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi .
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