Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train . |
| 2 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 3 | On his return to Britain , he set up as a portrait painter in both London and Edinburgh , purveying the Grand Manner to all buyers , but even then it was a restrained baroque , tempered by Ramsay 's own unmelodramatic personality . |
| 4 | After six months as a house surgeon at Essex County Hospital , Colchester , he set up as a country doctor in the New Forest , his amusing recollections of which appeared in St. Bartholomew 's Hospital Journal ( 1933–5 ) . |
| 5 | Nick Hern has exchanged contracts with Random House for the acquisition of Nick Hern Books , the theatre list he set up as a part of Walker Books in 1988 which joined Random House in 1990 . |
| 6 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
| 7 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |
| 8 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
| 9 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
| 10 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 11 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 12 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 13 | As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition . |
| 14 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 15 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 16 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 17 | He set out with an army across the Border . |
| 18 | A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver . |
| 19 | Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley . |
| 20 | He set off along the side of the building . |
| 21 | When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed . |
| 22 | As his lad let him go , he set off towards the start flat out with his mouth open and his nose in the air . |
| 23 | He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house . |
| 24 | He set off towards the canal , leaving Robbie — as usual , she fumed — to scurry after him . |
| 25 | So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry . |
| 26 | He set off across the marble lake at a canter , with Helen panting behind . |
| 27 | But the pressure in his bladder was growing , and he set off across the square in search of a public toilet . |
| 28 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 29 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 30 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |