Example sentences of "then set [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
| 2 | ‘ Give these to the first person you come across , introduce yourself and see what happens , ’ she advised him , then set off on her own to the kitchen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 5 | First he dispossessed Hendrie in full flight and then set off on a spectacular 50-yard solo run down the right . |
| 6 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |