Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Stewart Hulse , team leader of the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team , has some harsh words for youth groups who set out onto the Lakeland Fells , determined to complete their objectives at all costs .
2 Our 1963 Herald 12/50 was keen to get going , and at the allotted time we set off through the Borders and towards North Yorkshire .
3 After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare .
4 He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces .
5 At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood .
6 The aircraft-carrier Clemenceau , though it set off for the Gulf and its movements were followed initially by Le Monde , returned to Toulon in October after a 55-day voyage .
7 He dialled out , and as he waited for it to be answered he knew he was using a line more private than anything set up between the Kremlin and the White House .
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