Example sentences of "setting [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Has she thought of setting up in the coffin business herself ?
3 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 .
4 Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea .
5 Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion .
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