Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] the north [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Formed a year ago the group is one of 14 similar bodies set up by the North East Wales TEC to examine common issues experienced in specific sectors . |
| 3 | For legal support staff , regional training courses were set up in the North West and attended by over 500 staff from throughout the region . |
| 4 | A mobile training resource based on the Playtrac model is being set up in the North East by Save the Children , in partnership with Mencap and The Spastics Society . |
| 5 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 6 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 7 | The last operating day again just after 15.00 and 61094 has arrived from Leicester and is about to take water before setting back into the north bay . |
| 8 | Undaunted the helicopter crew managed to recover the remaining survivors in very difficult conditions , and will all four survivors aboard the helicopter the remaining tow line was cut and the lifeboat set off to the north east to return to her station . |