Example sentences of "set off on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He showed us his collection of guns , taking them down from their racks and handing them out to us as if we were about to set off on some dangerous mission . |
| 2 | As soon as they set off on separate duties , they both visibly relaxed . |
| 3 | They set off on 17 January , carried by Captain Hunter 's LRDG patrol and navigated once again by Mike Sadler . |
| 4 | It can then be set off on new cases . |
| 5 | After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes . |
| 6 | When you go and buy your ticket and you 're setting off on that day |
| 7 | ‘ Now you are setting off on mad expeditions . ’ |
| 8 | Joy and Alan set off on one of their marathon walks , this time a coast-to-coast sponsored effort to raise money for our local church , one of the oldest in North Wales . |
| 9 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 10 | Courtesy of their arrangements with Air New Zealand , ‘ Pooler ’ set off on 10th July for the land of the ruck and the long white cloud . |
| 11 | The whole detachment set off on 15 March from Siwa in the trucks of John Olivey 's Rhodesian patrol , heading for the Jebel mountains to the south of Benghazi , a journey of 400 miles . |
| 12 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 13 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |