Example sentences of "[pers pn] had set [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had set out on my walking tour of France in search of tranquillity . |
| 2 | I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça . |
| 3 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 4 | She knew that , after an initial period of gaining experience with a leading European firm , he had set up on his own . |
| 5 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |