Example sentences of "[prep] setting [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cairns , convinced an earlier declaration could have given Notts a chance of victory , at one stage squatted in mid-pitch with his head in his hands and was only directed back to the middle after setting off for the pavilion . |
| 2 | A yachtsman has been reunited with his wife — five months after setting off on a voyage which should have lasted just four weeks . |
| 3 | They arrived at Las Palmas a month before the start , after setting off from their base , Down Cruising Club on Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland , on 16 September . |
| 4 | AN RAF air-sea rescue helicopter today joined a massive search for three young men who disappeared in a small speedboat after setting out on a two-hour trip along the west Wales coast . |
| 5 | This is currently one of the most popular — and safest — ways of setting up on your own . |
| 6 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 7 | It seems for many the idea of setting up behind the bar is even more powerful than the interest rates . |
| 8 | J. went off to another station at one point for a two week course on shoe repairing and general leatherwork — not that he was thinking of setting up in business as a cobbler , but figuring that a free training on any practical skill was worth having . |
| 9 | When potential investors , and more particularly their banks , look at the possibility of setting up in a district , they invariably inquire about the water supply and the standards and controls of effluents and sewerage systems . |
| 10 | Has she thought of setting up in the coffin business herself ? |
| 11 | Ariana 's mission is to take a lot of the risk and expense out of setting up in Europe by establishing the American firm 's subsidiaries itself . |
| 12 | More and more they saw the folly of setting out with a medium in search of a message … |
| 13 | The disturbances on the borders of Brecon , whether officially encouraged or not , had grown to such proportions that the King had despatched his brother the Earl of Cornwall to the march in haste to try and suppress them , and was himself in the act of setting out from Windsor to join him there . |
| 14 | The journey was conceived and prepared through a Scottish winter with the idea of setting out in the spring . |
| 15 | And when he felt he could n't walk another step , or wanted to question the wisdom of setting off down an unlit passage , he could always say Elaine 's so tired or Elaine 's a bit nervous . |
| 16 | Discussions are understood to be under way with several companies which have expressed an interest in setting up alongside the plant to supply components to Motorola , which operates on a just-in-time principle of bringing in materials just as they are required for the production process . |
| 17 | ‘ There would be no point in setting out for a star if you did n't know how far away it was . ’ |
| 18 | Murdock lost no time in setting out for London to take out a patent for his model . |
| 19 | Stuart stayed only ten months before setting up on his own in 1956 . |
| 20 | also worked in the Sisson workshop before setting up on his own almost next door in 1745 . |
| 21 | He had also , ten years ago or more , worked for Grunt 's Garages before setting up on his own as a builder/developer . |
| 22 | On the completion of his articles in 1814 he moved to London to work as an assistant in the office of David Laing [ q.v. ] , architect to the customs and excise , before setting up in independent practice there in 1818 . |
| 23 | I had to go and fetch water from two blocks away at 5 a.m. before setting off to the market . |
| 24 | Before setting off to the British circuits Stephen will take in the Enkalon meeting at Aghadowey on Easter Saturday , and at end of the season will ride in the Hillsborough Sunflower International . |
| 25 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 26 | We sat down and talked for a while before setting off towards Hawes , as the sun broke through the clouds and the dog pulled him downhill towards the cairns . |
| 27 | At least one species of African bushbaby , for example , cups its hands and urinates upon them before setting off into the African night . |
| 28 | Edward Browning , a night club bouncer , called at his father 's home shortly before setting off for Scotland . |
| 29 | Obviously a thief had been about , but Dad had no time to investigate before setting off for work . |
| 30 | Leopold dawdled before setting off for home . |