Example sentences of "he set [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm . |
| 2 | With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op . |
| 3 | Waving his cheque book for $10 000 ( ready to Day to anyone who can produce convincing psychic phenomena ) he sets out on the exposure trail . |
| 4 | Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 10 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 13 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 17 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |