Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But normally either the land was eventually to be divided equally between the children or , more typically where land was scarcer , the land itself would go to a single son and provision be made for the other children in cash — very often advanced earlier in life , on marriage or to set up in a trade . |
| 2 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 3 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 4 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 5 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
| 6 | The Buddha of Suburbia is about filling that vacuum , which Karim 's father does by leaving his wife for his single-breasted girlfriend and setting up as a Bromley guru , or escaping from it , which Karim himself does by moving north of the river in search of new mainly sexual , experience . |
| 7 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 8 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 9 | In 1799 , having decided that strict attention to work was undermining his health , Edwards turned his business over to R. H. Evans [ q.v. ] and set up as a gentleman collector . |
| 10 | He fled to Cyprus without his wife and set up as a storekeeper and contractor . |
| 11 | It was a long haul with my heavy bag to the bus stop at the top of town next day , but I made it and set out on a bus journey westward from Roscommon to Galway . |
| 12 | But at last they reached the top and set out along a ridge under the clear blue sky , valleys running steeply to left and right of them . |
| 13 | In the late Sixties , Kasmin swallowed his pride and set off as a travelling salesman on behalf of the gallery to America , travelling the States with a bagful of transparencies , finding out who was interested in art from the local museums , and visiting people who did n't get to New York . |
| 14 | Not for the first time , Josh wondered how much use an aging and lame night watchman would be in an emergency , but he put this thought aside and set off on a tour of inspection . |
| 15 | The boy dropped the halter he was holding and set off at a run through the gateway and towards the big house . |
| 16 | Petion nodded and set off at a trot . |
| 17 | Hrun slung the unconscious dragonlord over his shoulder and set off at a trot back to the arena . |
| 18 | At last he turned north again , his dog still running at his heels , and set off to a village just outside London . |
| 19 | When set up as a Novell 3.11 file server the DC-2031 cached IDE host card only really made its presence felt on the 128Kb Sequential Read Test , improving performance by about 15 per cent . |
| 20 | When the bus started , they all crossed themselves , as I had seen nuns do in Ireland when setting out on a journey , however short . |