Example sentences of "set off on [num] " in BNC.

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1 They set off on 17 January , carried by Captain Hunter 's LRDG patrol and navigated once again by Mike Sadler .
2 After resting for a while , it suddenly gets up , looks around and then sets off on one of its mad dashes .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger .
6 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 .
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