Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 32 | ‘ I would like to go back now , ’ she announced , and they set off down the grassy path in the scented April darkness , back to The Gantry . |
| 33 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 34 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |
| 35 | The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today . |
| 36 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 37 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 38 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 39 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 40 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 41 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |
| 42 | The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them . |
| 43 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |