Example sentences of "set [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On 5th June , Richard finally set sail on the final leg of his long journey , reaching Tyre next day . |
| 32 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 33 | The Dunera , an 11,000 ton former troopship , bound for Australia , set sail on 10 July . |
| 34 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 35 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 36 | ‘ Then the twenty-five ships from Denmark sailed over to Siward 's ships and took aboard the men from the wrecked ships , and greeted the ones on the three ships that were not damaged , and , led by the three ships , set sail across the mouth of the estuary . |
| 37 | On 5 July they set sail with a fair wind , but the adventure ended almost before it had begun for , 120 miles [ 192 km ] off the coast of Brittany , the little taskforce was challenged by the 60-gun Lion . |
| 38 | At the end of the month , the Arandora Star , once advertised as ‘ the world 's most delightful cruising liner ’ , set sail with nearly 1200 internees and 200 British troops to guard them . |
| 39 | From there we set sail with sixteen fierce Bugis tribesmen on a 2,500-mile voyage through the Spice Islands in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 40 | SUNDAY : Set sail from Corfu to the beautiful bay of Syvota . |
| 41 | It was from Holkham that the first Devons were commercially exported to the USA , though in fact the Pilgrim Fathers , who set sail from Plymouth , took some Devons with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 42 | They set sail from the Guadalquivir River under the proud corporate title of the Armada de Molucca , amply armed but hopelessly provisioned , with crews composed of men of nine different nationalities and of innumerable and in many cases mutually antagonistic temperaments . |
| 43 | My first visit to ‘ the daughter of fire ’ was back in the summer of 1969 , when with two friends , Ian and Marie Brooker , we set sail from the port of Leith on the old mail steamer ‘ Gullfoss ’ , and after several days of not too comfortable travelling , we had our first glimpse of Iceland . |
| 44 | In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard . |
| 45 | He was only a youngster when a party of keen Warrington anglers set sail from East Ferry Quay , in Cork Harbour , with local skipper Brian Byrne aboard the 30ft Lagosta . |
| 46 | After the ship 's foghorn had blasted out six times , they set sail from Dover , one thousand men huddled together on the deck of HMS Resolution singing , ‘ It 's a Long Way to Tipperary ’ . |
| 47 | On Sunday morning , 16 September , they set sail in the packet-boat on a boisterous sea . |
| 48 | So , after years of preparation , Columbus finally set sail in 1492 . |
| 49 | Despite the slightly unsatisfactory nature of the data set used by Lucas , and although the tests he applied were hardly rigorous , his paper was influential in that it was one of the first to show that certain of the predictions made by the rational expectations hypothesis were not entirely inconsistent with the data . |
| 50 | Two boys and a woman , who are n't even dhāmis , leap to their feet , possessed , their bodies spinning-tops set turning by the strength of the gods ' will to dance . |
| 51 | Set to ship in May prices starts at $5,000 . |
| 52 | That provided a large data set based on face-to-face interviews , self-completion questionnaires and physical surveys . |
| 53 | NVQs set to extend across the Group |
| 54 | ASIAN CABBIES SET TO QUIT IN MURDER FEAR |
| 55 | Set to kick off the programme at MAC on Saturday 29 September is the British premiere of MASALA an irreverent tragi-comedy set amongst Toronto 's middle-class Asian community starring Saeed Jaffrey . |
| 56 | Today 's stage nine is 120 miles from Wrexham to Rotherham and the Milk Race comes to Liverpool city centre tomorrow , the first riders set to arrive at around 2.30pm. finishing line for the stage is situated at the top of the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 57 | He said that officials had now halved their projections of the number of Soviet Jews set to arrive in 1991 , and now expected some 200,000 , or only slightly more than in 1990 ( 185,000 ) . |
| 58 | With the number of cars on our roads set to double by the year twenty-twenty-five , : our environment reporter Harriet Ryley considers whether we really NEED more roads . |
| 59 | Then harnesses the horse , the caravan is ready , all set to roll behind the thrusting black . |
| 60 | Hooded brass or chrome floor lamps make especially good reading lamps since they can be moved around to various chairs or sofas , and set to shine on books , or they can be directed onto a wall or ceiling . |