Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leopold dawdled before setting off for home . |
| 2 | Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin , meeting on March 23 in the Georgian town of Kazbegi , agreed to set up by April 10 a joint Georgian-Russian militia detachment to police Georgia 's troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 3 | Obviously a thief had been about , but Dad had no time to investigate before setting off for work . |
| 4 | ‘ In our research , we found disabled people were being discouraged from even thinking about setting up in business , ’ she said . |
| 5 | J. went off to another station at one point for a two week course on shoe repairing and general leatherwork — not that he was thinking of setting up in business as a cobbler , but figuring that a free training on any practical skill was worth having . |