Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once . |
| 2 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 3 | It was a cold , bright morning when we set out cheerfully down the river . |
| 4 | We set off again along the gravel paths . |
| 5 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 6 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 7 | ‘ There 'll be scent enough today , ’ she said as they set off again for the meet . |
| 8 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 9 | Gloag moved to Glasgow where , with an unmarried sister , he set up home in the university . |
| 10 | He had n't time , he thought , and he set off briskly towards the blacksmith 's , his rucksack and his bags already bulging . |
| 11 | Joseph lunged toward it , but the sight of him terrorized the gibbon further , and it set off frantically towards the only visible refuge . |