Example sentences of "set [adv prt] on [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps .
2 Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home .
3 And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield .
4 He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again .
5 But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return .
6 Here he stuck out his chest and strutted about like a professional walker setting out on a long distance race .
7 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 .
8 He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon .
9 The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge .
10 However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg .
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