Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 2 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 3 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 4 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 5 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 6 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 7 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 8 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |