Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] set [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost 30 when he was finally crowned at Scone , and with his naturally introspective , melancholy temperament soured by long , enforced idleness , he drove himself to become a man of action and set about destroying those who had grown rich and powerful in his absence , especially the Albany faction . |
| 2 | He was also a man of means and in 1839 , as a young architect , he bought up an estate in Cheltenham known as the Park and set about making fourteen acres of formal gardens and building six of speculative housing . |
| 3 | This is set in Ulster and sets out to depict ordinary people getting on with their lives . |
| 4 | In 1987 the Shared Earth Trust took over the management of the farm and set out to reverse this process , establishing a long term programme to develop Denmark Farm as a haven for wildlife and a genetic bank from which wildlife species will be able to spread out and recolonise the surrounding countryside when future agricultural policies make this possible . |
| 5 | Eventually they would change into shorts and T-shirts and set off to run two or more miles around the outskirts of town . |
| 6 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
| 7 | Bruce and his four brothers threw the English out of Dumfries castle and set off to capture other fortresses . |