Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 2 | He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it . |
| 3 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 4 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 5 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 6 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 7 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |