Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 2 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 3 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 4 | He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal . |
| 5 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 6 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 7 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 8 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 9 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 10 | He set off at a brisk walk . |
| 11 | He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled . |
| 12 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 13 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 14 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |