Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so we set off towards Tughlukabad , Balvinder doing his best to prove his point . |
| 2 | And so he sets off on foot , aiming nowhere . |
| 3 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 4 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 5 | He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it . |
| 6 | Then we set off by car to tape some face-to-face interviews with funeral directors . |
| 7 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 8 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 9 | In 1868 he moved back to London , where he set up in practice at 46 Queen Anne 's Gate as a consulting civil engineer , in association with his son Sydney William Yockney . |