Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] set [adv prt] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew I was in a race against time so I set about altering the gear box myself . |
| 2 | ‘ She said she thought Dick and Joy had forgotten they were to pick her up , so she set off to catch the bus . ’ |
| 3 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 4 | Such wretched arrogance on the part of the defeated revolutionary so enraged the Tory-voting entrepreneurs opposite that they set about producing a reply , out of brown wrapping paper and spray paint . |
| 5 | It was on this basis that he set about creating a new monastic life with all the force and organizational ability which he possessed . |
| 6 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 7 | No sooner was he back amongst his own patients than he set about exchanging the dressings applied by Dr McNab , even though they were in most cases identical to his own . |
| 8 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 9 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 10 | That 's fine with me , and I set about securing a partial guarantee from the Philippines ' largest bank . |
| 11 | We dismantled the imprinting equipment to make way for the passive avoidance pens and I set about raising the grant money to let us move into full swing . |
| 12 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 13 | The wealth of Sir Herbert Leon , who had bought the Bletchley estate in 1883 and who set about transforming the house , was trumpeted loudly in the griffin statues on either side of the main entrance , in the exterior ‘ refinements ’ , in the florid plasterwork of friezes and ceilings , and in the opulent oak panelling and heavily elaborate carved details of the interior . |
| 14 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 15 | If you set out to buy a telescope , take great care . |
| 16 | If you set out to buy a pair of binoculars , and decide to test them , look at the Moon by all means , but never , on any account , point them anywhere near the Sun . |
| 17 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 18 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 19 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 20 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 21 | By August , Crawford was well established in Dunedin , having found board in the seaside suburb of St Clair , and he set about grooming a training squad from which the Otago team for the coming season would be selected . |
| 22 | Her heart sank at the sight of fresh blood on the bandage , but she set about unwinding the strip of linen , praying that she had not opened up fitzAlan 's wound too badly in her frantic efforts to escape . |
| 23 | Regression techniques , because they set out to make the squared distances of the residuals from the line as small as possible , can be unduly influenced by a few exceptional data points . |
| 24 | He followed this with a traditional French bakery in Oxford while he set about converting a 15th century Cotswold manor house into Le Manoir , which opened in 1984 and has since become one of Britain 's most exclusive restaurants . |
| 25 | Whether our interest is practical or theoretical , whether we set out to provide the ‘ correct ’ treatment for children of various ages or whether we wish to understand the processes underlying their behaviour , we must describe and experiment systematically and objectively in order to arrive at worthwhile conclusions . |
| 26 | The news of the school uplift reached the two shopping in Kirkwall before they set out to travel the twenty miles or so back home . |
| 27 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 28 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 30 | CLAUDIE Garner did n't hang about when she set out to break a UK speed record . |