Example sentences of "set [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 2 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 3 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 4 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 5 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 6 | It happened shortly after 500 athletes set off on the Rowntree Athletic Club 's 10-mile road race at the weekend . |
| 7 | Set up on the initiative of the secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches , the Reverend Frank Chikane , the Independent Board of Inquiry into Informal Repression has investigated five episodes in which the ‘ death squad ’ was involved . |
| 8 | She walked slowly up the street on the shaded side , stepping carefully round the stalls set up on the pavement and the goods displayed by some vendors which were spread out on cloths on the pavement itself . |
| 9 | Some of the earliest shops were situated in London 's busy market streets such as Queen 's Crescent and Chapel Street , with stalls set up on the pavement . |
| 10 | England 's champs set out on the glory trail with a warning to keep their cool |
| 11 | I saw tombs open and the terrifying silhouettes of walking corpses set out on the road . |
| 12 | I arrived at the Castle early on Monday morning , and after a glass of rum and milk , we set out on the road . |
| 13 | Five parties set out on the night of 11 July , led by Martin , Jellicoe , Jordan , Fraser and Mayne . |
| 14 | You started off at the beginning of your beat — set out on the north side of Lime Street — took a quarter of an hour to walk round and try all the locks . |
| 15 | Set out on the benches were models of various shapes : a globe , a long horn , a ring-doughnut , and one that looked like a horse 's saddle . |
| 16 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 17 | I hope that I have encouraged you to get the pattern sheets , electronic pen and , if needed , cover-up strips set out on the table ready to draw a pattern . |
| 18 | Still positioned as a technical , rather than a commercial Unix supplier — and with its sights set firmly on the Cray Y-MP and Convex Computer Corp user community — the Mountain View , California company has introduced Challenge and Power Challenge server systems , claiming Cray-equivalent performance at a tenth of the price . |