Example sentences of "he set [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 2 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 3 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 4 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 5 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 6 | 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 . |