Example sentences of "set [adv prt] on [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Severin , a renowned adventurer and author , set off on May 13th on a ‘ China voyage ’ which is taking him from Hong Kong to California on a bamboo raft , and will produce a book of that name , published by Little , Brown , in October 1994 . |
| 2 | This pledge to disarm civilians had been formalized with the establishment of the broad-based National Security Commission , set up on Aug. 29 with its own armed 150-strong Special Disarmament Brigade . |
| 3 | The Constitutional Assembly , set up on Sept. 7 to draft a new constitution [ see p. 38420 ] , continued its debates , having run over the Nov. 15 deadline . |
| 4 | Opponents of this proposed legislation set up on Nov. 13 a committee headed by Zbigniew Bujak , the Solidarity veteran and Union of Labour deputy to the Sejm , to campaign for a national referendum on the issue . |
| 5 | But he was not expecting the economy and the Government 's finances to be in a much worse state than that set out on March 10 in the Chancellor 's Budget report . |
| 6 | She left her cleaning-woman , Maryann , in charge of the house , and set out on foot one evening . |