Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 2 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 3 | Armed with wooden swords , cardboard breast plates , and now shields , we set off with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 4 | Next morning , after a leisurely start , we set off across bare rock beds from our base camp beneath the steep snow slopes of the Mera La . |
| 5 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |
| 6 | and er they set off in hot pursuit . |
| 7 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 8 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 9 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 10 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |