Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure it is a little difficult to be certain how big " large " has to be before this behaviour sets in — indeed it was emphasised by Bohr and his friends that the line could be drawn at different places along the chain — but somewhere this classical behaviour had to set in to make measurement possible . |
| 2 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 3 | As promised , one of the project workers gave me an early shake and I had time enough for a coffee before I needed to set off to meet Jenny . |
| 4 | It 's the first and so far only British union to employ a full-time officer in Brussels , giving you direct access to the law-making process and E C funds to set up to benefit trade unions . |
| 5 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 6 | He would expect no man , having come through that , to set out to march thirty odd miles to the Tay , this side of nightfall . |
| 7 | We are all so bombarded with information that it requires a lot of will-power to set out to find more information . |
| 8 | It is natural to set out to look for something with a rigid set of requirements : to know precisely what we are looking for . |
| 9 | Another group of nomes was about to set out to look for them . |
| 10 | But neither is it any more enlightening to say , for example , that " x is greater thany " means that if we were to set out to construct x and y by some algorithmic procedure , the construction of x would require a greater number of steps ; for the question is , what is meant by " greater " ? |
| 11 | But is n't , is n't that the quote at the beginning of your book , er , unsigned quote , erm , does n't that say something about how , how , you know , long aired radio biography of someone is very political or sort of er , disregard all of the important things they really done , and I do n't know , I do n't know if it 's er , pertinent erm , but obviously , in Freud , Freud wanted to set out to criticize Wilson erm , so he , you know , he went in with it . |
| 12 | A year in Florence and the poetry of Dante have inspired him to set out to understand the influences in his life and work . |
| 13 | Herodotus of Halicarnassus , his Researches are here set down to preserve the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of our own and of other peoples ; and more particularly , to show how they came into conflict . |
| 14 | Mrs Singh , Balbinder and I set off to visit Cedars School . |
| 15 | They heard the muffled thud as the charge blew before they set off to see how others were faring on this southern lock . |
| 16 | ‘ Deal , ’ Ted Hammond said , and they set off to see if the sisters had joined the party yet . |
| 17 | Millions of pounds spent on satellite technology is wasted when people like me ignore Michael Fish yelling on television from behind some sandbags , ‘ For God 's sake take cover ! ’ as we set off to claim a Munro with a song in our hearts . |
| 18 | At dawn , with Adrar thirteen miles away , I set off to reach its safety without the wheelbarrow , using a six foot pole as a staff . |
| 19 | It also has a very attractive promenade and a small harbour from where boats set off to go up and down the lake . |
| 20 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 21 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 22 | We gave thm a full English breakfast and then set off to explore Essex . |
| 23 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 24 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 25 | Gabriel flexed his muscles , then set off to run . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 27 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 28 | We set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout . |
| 29 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 30 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |