Example sentences of "set [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With his amused , unshocked expression , his bush-hat set so jauntily on the back of his head , this American was difficult to take .
2 On the Somerset Levels , inundated by heavy floods in 1872 and 1873 , a report described how ‘ Ague set in early in the spring and is now very prevalent … among the poorer families who are badly fed and clothed . ’
3 Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired .
4 We finished serving lunch and coffee and cleared up , and as soon as I decently could I left the kitchen and set off forward up the train .
5 Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us .
6 ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface …
7 Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed .
8 She turned from the shop-window and set off briskly down the street towards the Stefansplatz , Karelius striding alongside .
9 The guide nodded and set off briskly across the floor .
10 He had n't time , he thought , and he set off briskly towards the blacksmith 's , his rucksack and his bags already bulging .
11 Fearon dragged it on over his sweater , tugged a disreputable flat cap over his wet hair and set off briskly towards the yard .
12 At the Grand , David Swan fastened his amended photopass to his jacket and set off briskly towards the conference centre some two hundred yards away .
13 Next day they left Seton to his problems and set off northwards up the coast for Dunbar , thirty miles .
14 She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once .
15 Four bombs , set off earlier in the day in Santiago by suspected members of the ultra-right September 11 Commando caused minor structural damage .
16 With that he relaxed his grasp and set off alone in the direction of the Chelonians .
17 The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life .
18 TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway .
19 He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate .
20 For this purpose the investigators are using the UK Family Expenditure Survey pooled over the years 1970 to 1985 set up jointly with the Institute for Fiscal Studies .
21 Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial .
22 Eventually , a central department set up jointly by the refugee committees helped to alleviate major problems like the treatment of refugees as Nazis , refugees and Nazis being kept in close proximity , inadequate accommodation , lack of adequate medical care and the separation of families .
23 A song thrush opted for a life on the road when it set up home on a pick-up truck at Harwell , see below .
24 Gloag moved to Glasgow where , with an unmarried sister , he set up home in the university .
25 Pupils would then lob ping-pong balls in his direction and he would swing his tremendous member with the aim of knocking the balls into a waste-bin set up especially for the occasion .
26 Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber .
27 Captain Crunch software should be available to multimedia developers soon , and Media Vision expects to have a video chip set out later in the year costing around $50 , with a full add-in board costing under $300 .
28 In the month of Sāun , Kalchu and Sigarup set out together across the mountains on a pilgrimage to Rānāmāche Lake .
29 As a result of these problems , it is our preferred policy to use the specimen letter set out below as an alternative to confidentiality letters generated by clients ' Solicitors .
30 As a result of these problems , it is our preferred policy to use the specimen letter set out below as an alternative to confidentiality letters generated by clients ' Solicitors .
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