Example sentences of "[adv] he set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 3 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 6 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |