Example sentences of "then sets [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes .
3 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 .
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 Thus each evening Silene bathes her white body in the ocean , then sets off across the skies to caress her sleeping lover .
6 He then sets out to scourge the thronging temples of moneychangers and idolators .
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