Example sentences of "then set [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |
| 2 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 3 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |