Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
| 2 | Coleridge had spent three weeks in Oxford before , on 5 July 1794 , he finally set off on his Welsh expedition , promising Southey that he would rejoin him later to make further plans for settling in America . |
| 3 | Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is to head the newly-established " Green Cross " , an organization set up at his own initiative with the aim of being an environmental equivalent of the Red Cross . |
| 4 | But after he inherited a little money and set up in his own business Mama stopped working , and then she had my little brothers . ’ |
| 5 | Captain James Cook , whose parents were local farmworkers , set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary . |
| 6 | After working for a while in Capetown and Orange Free State to acquire funds , Macleod bought a wagon and eighteen oxen , and set out with his elder brother to trade with the tribesmen around Kimberley . |
| 7 | Desimir set out with his six wagonloads of treasure , and was gone for three years . |
| 8 | The argument against poststructuralism really just repeats Lukács ' reproach , set out in his 1957 essay ‘ The Ideology of Modernism ’ , that modernism involves a ‘ negation of history ’ . |
| 9 | These works produced only two Scottish replies arguing against the English case , The Complaynt of Scotland , and the recently discovered Ane Resonying of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rawand ( Rouen ) and Lionis ( Lyons ) by the royal councillor and administrator William Lamb , an imagined discourse between two merchants travelling in France , in which the Scottish merchant utterly refuted , point by point , the claims of Henry VIII set out in his 1542 Declaration . |
| 10 | There is the problem of general deterrence , which my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , East ( Mr. Smith ) set out in his excellent speech on behalf of his constituents . |