Example sentences of "set [adv] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original plan to restore the house as a hotel has lapsed and new proposals have been lodged with the city council for dividing the house into flats with new front doors set randomly into many of the original window frames , and with no use for the spectacular hall and staircase . |
| 2 | The farmer 's wife has kindly pressed my kilt and I set off into town with a small group of Commandos , all of us determined to enjoy ourselves , and , of course , to sort out the local French girls . |
| 3 | Soon after breakfast we set off into the jungle . |
| 4 | I had acquired and learned to drive an old Hillman during the summer and , piling two tired and travel-sick children into the back with our parcels , we set off into the night . |
| 5 | The lights of Soufrière twinkled a long way off as they set off into the black , and headed north for Marigot Bay . |
| 6 | Concrete fixings spoil the look of a lawn , and poles set directly into the earth often loosen in wet weather and begin to lean . |
| 7 | The new bass made use of Leo 's bolt-on maple neck , with the now traditional long-scale measurement ( the distance in which the top string can vibrate freely , ie. from the nut to where it passes over the bridge saddle ) of 34″ , and twenty frets set directly into the maple fretboard . |
| 8 | Set back into a thick hazelnut hedge across a stony roadway , facing these buildings , is a structure which , again , the sun never blesses : the garden 's fruit house . |
| 9 | Ideally , gates should be hung on sturdy posts set well into the ground , but where this is impossible , such as against a house wall , the only secure way to fit the post is to screw it to the wall using large expanding bolts , such as Rawlbolts . |
| 10 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 11 | The feudal lords — who could afford real glass — usually had it set directly into stone or metal . |
| 12 | ‘ The paintings are set directly into the ceiling of an octagonal staircase , ’ Rab explains . |
| 13 | Ted Wragg , describing his work as adviser to the Parliamentary Select Committee into the attainment of the school leaver ( 1976/7 ) , reports that mathematics was the topic that came up by far the most frequently in all the submissions to that Committee , and one of its recommendations was that an inquiry should be set up into mathematics teaching . |
| 14 | He worked for the KGB at the time and he knew everything because he was involved in the secret inquiry that was set up into the ‘ incident ’ , as he called it . |
| 15 | Networked computer facilities are set up into which any number of firms can be hooked . |
| 16 | The independent inquiry was set up into the LAS after the system broke down twice within 10 days . |
| 17 | subject I sometimes wonder if sometimes the Tory politicians are like Jehovah 's Witnesses really , they sort of set out into battle and say go out and convert these people , we 're gon na slam the door on them . |
| 18 | Her mind had set irrevocably into middle age when she was about ten . |
| 19 | Ensure rocky structures are set firmly into the gravel ; more complicated structures can be siliconed together before placing in the tank ( and/or siliconed to the glass ) . |
| 20 | The use of titles encourages you to see individuals as set firmly into their social slots . |
| 21 | This rule was set solidly into our law by the House of Lords in Hollins v. Fowler . |
| 22 | Camus sets off into the night . |
| 23 | The following morning , a raiding party sets out into the new territory . |
| 24 | Before a bushbaby sets out into the African night , it performs a strange ritual : it cups its hands and then urinates on them . |
| 25 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 26 | At least one species of African bushbaby , for example , cups its hands and urinates upon them before setting off into the African night . |
| 27 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |
| 28 | Even with full flap the aeroplane is quite clean , so maximum drag is used to get the power setting up into the quick-response range for a safe goaround . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Elsewhere an only son and brother is setting out into the great world to win a name and place . |