Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must not remember the story I set out to tell . |
| 2 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 3 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 4 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 5 | So with borrowed gear , no harness and a stranger I set off . |
| 6 | I still have a note of the objectives for the review I set out at Wilton Park : |
| 7 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 8 | ‘ Despite the aggressive treatment and the rigorous fitness programme we set up , he began to deteriorate . |
| 9 | After a welcome by the leaders of both parties we set off to show Jacques and Odile around Royston , which is steeped in history . |
| 10 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 11 | At nightfall they set off down the escarpment and in holiday mood were soon bowling merrily along the coast road . |
| 12 | After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare . |
| 13 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 14 | ‘ She drew a door for herself through all the barriers I set up around myself and walked in . ’ |
| 15 | After a shop at Sainsburys in Camden Town and a quick cold meat and salad lunch I set off by Tube to Finsbury Circus to one of the big offices of BP for a Management and Membership Committee meeting of the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 16 | That is why in this manifesto we set out a clear analysis of Britain 's problems and our proposals for putting them right . |
| 17 | But that is n't the question we set out with . |
| 18 | After lunch they set off to Kingsburgh for one of their most memorable encounters . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | In December they set up a new one to consider moving the capital . |
| 21 | After these experiences they set out to rebuild the prison system , from the perspective of prisoners turned gaolers . |
| 22 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |
| 23 | And so it was then , that on a cold , Tuesday October evening I set off for my first match … |
| 24 | Everyone knows that in fact you can get organised — so — leaving the family , animals and business I set off for Avery Hill College . |
| 25 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 26 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 27 | After arrival at the capital of Reykjavik we watched in some trepidation as our heavily laden Landrover was swung out on a derrick and deposited on the quay , but all went well and as soon as we had cleared customs we set out to take a look at this bright little capital city . |
| 28 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 29 | Their real force can be discerned from the extent to which the problematics they set up have continued to exercise subsequent writers . |
| 30 | For the next ten days they set up camp at Etaples , spending their mornings being marched over dunes , their afternoons being instructed in gas warfare and their evenings being told by Captain Trentham the different ways they could die . |