Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 2 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 3 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 4 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 5 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 6 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 7 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 8 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 9 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 10 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 11 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 12 | But he , or she , does need to be within striking distance of yourself , especially when you have set out on the tricky waters of the novel . |
| 13 | Very few of the proposals that we have set out in the preceding sections will be successful unless Britain is prepared to work in partnership within the Community . |
| 14 | In 1967 the government accepted many of the economic principles we have set out in the last two chapters . |