Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 2 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 3 | So , excited , and wondering what surprise her brother could conceivably have arranged , she set off with Sam in the britzka for Trouville . |
| 4 | On 17 June Gould set off with Sturt across the Mount Lofty range towards the Murray River . |
| 5 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 6 | The American Consul-General in Port of Spain granted Stewart an emergency visa for his dash through Caracas and on to New York , and Stewart set off at dawn on the Tuesday , hoping to reach Ayresome Park in time for the replay on Saturday . |
| 7 | Nineteenth August — the 1st Commando Brigade left the area south of Bavent and set off in pursuit of the enemy . |
| 8 | He remounted immediately and set off in pursuit of the other runners , but as a Gold Cup trial the race was a mess , and the announcement that Jonjo O'Neill was once more to replace Mullins for the big race came as no surprise . |
| 9 | They immediately phoned Allen , who has a car business at Lower Wield , and he set off in pursuit of the gang . |
| 10 | He set off in pursuit of the fatally wounded officer shouting : ‘ He is still alive , I am going to get him . ’ |
| 11 | It set off in pursuit of the Capri , but lost it about five miles away , outside the town of Forth in Lanarkshire . |
| 12 | As soon as he learned of the rebels ' withdrawal from Derby , he sent orders to Field Marshal Wade to intercept them from the west while his own army set off in pursuit from the south . |
| 13 | Tom put two and two together and set off in search of the youths , asking the Security Guard to summon the Police . |
| 14 | We decided to stay where we were while Johnny and Gavin , who were both experienced cyclists , set off in search of the minibus . |
| 15 | The trustees administering the appeal fund set up for victims of the bombings have now approved the design of a memorial to be placed in Bridge Street at the scene of the atrocity . |
| 16 | A particularly instructive example is not a temple but an exquisite and in part well-preserved little marble building , the treasury set up at Delphi by the islanders of Siphnos . |
| 17 | After a fruitless meeting set up at Jeddah in the hope of reconciling their differences and some display of nervousness by the oil market , Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait on 2 August , occupying the capital and prompting the Amir , Shaikh Jaber , to seek refuge in Saudi Arabia . |
| 18 | The same month , a United Nations commission , set up as part of the peace agreement , said that it was d'Aubuisson who had arranged the murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 . |
| 19 | But a CCETSW working party set up in response to the acute shortage of practice placements heard evidence that social workers finishing DipSW courses were having problems finding jobs . |
| 20 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
| 21 | ‘ Is it not remarkable , ’ she said , her pretty brows arched in bewilderment , ‘ that an organisation set up in support of the family is thereby assumed to be against the welfare state ? |
| 22 | It is said to be thinking of appointing a special envoy to the interim government set up in February in the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 23 | By that I mean that he considers schematic ways of making measurements , set up in accord with the rules of the theory , and sees if by any ingenious means he can circumvent a restriction like that imposed by equation [ 2 ] . |
| 24 | I DO N'T KNOW what political fringe group was responsible for the little table set up in front of the main Boston Post Office . |
| 25 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
| 26 | He set up in practice in the copper-mining town of Hettstedt but soon discovered that he was out of sympathy with the barbaric medical practices of his time which often showed little compassion for , or understanding of , the patient . |
| 27 | With Leoncico snapping genially at his heels , with a force of 190 Spaniards and with several hundred more local guides and porters embarked on a fleet of nine canoes and a small ship named the Chapinera , Balboa set out for Acla on the morning of Thursday , 1 September 1513 . |
| 28 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 29 | Gardening owed much to these cooperative captains ; the two mentioned above faithfully observed Miller 's directions for the transport of plants , set out at length in the Dictionary . |
| 30 | Letting herself out inconspicuously by way of the backstairs , Joan set out after dark for the Garden Tower , taking a circuitous route to avoid arousing suspicion . |