Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Ken set off this summer to walk from St. Bees Head in Cumbria and finished at Robin Hood Bay . |
| 2 | So Rémy set out to explore the situation , and laid himself out to please , and his gifts and graces , when he tried , were considerable . |
| 3 | So Galileo set out to devise a method of considerable precision . |
| 4 | So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased ; I 'm quite proud of it . |
| 5 | So Wolfgang set off once more , this time with his mother , on a journey which was to lead to Paris — and tragedy . |
| 6 | ‘ Choto , ’ Angel swore at her as he galloped past to defend his goal and , however much Luke set up shots for her , Angel rode her off . |
| 7 | Thus Regan sets aside prejudice and thoughtfully explores the idea that the concept of rights might legitimately be applied to some animals . |
| 8 | Hawkbit was the last to return and as he came up Hazel set off at once . |
| 9 | A few days later Modigliani set him straight : |
| 10 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 11 | Well John set it up for me . |
| 12 | Then KLM sets new ones . |
| 13 | Twice Nottingham set themselves to push Northampton over their line . |
| 14 | It was a perfectly good declaration , but before long the older spectators were recalling Headingley 1948 , when Yardley set Australia over 400 to win and Morris and Bradman saw them home . |
| 15 | The need for a German theatre , as part of a wider literary and philosophical programme for Germany , arises at the point where Herder sets out to emphasize the Englishness of Shakespeare and the French character of the court of Louis XIV and its drama , and where he begins to point to the absence of a comparable phenomenon in the " Germany " — that is , the conglomeration of German principalities and duchies — of his own day . |
| 16 | Take the start of last year 's Grand Prix season when Senna set a new record by winning the first four races on the trot . |
| 17 | On the near corner is the shop where Simpson set up his business in the 1840s — which later became the firm of Simpson , Maule & Nicholson . |