Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car then drove off , but suddenly I set off running after it , shouting , " Otto Preminger ! |
| 2 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
| 3 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 4 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 5 | So I set out to have a go at the Station side , but it just happened that there was also a scratch side called the C.N. Lowe 15 . |
| 6 | And so I set off across the field . |
| 7 | So you set up WordPerfect so she , with a blank screen for Sarah to type on . |
| 8 | So you set up some sort of indent . |
| 9 | So we set about putting a stop to it . |
| 10 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 11 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 12 | So we set off bravely in our four-inchers , risking life , limb and hoots of European laughter , while the Italians stride through the sunbeds in the ultimate pair of flat sandals . |
| 13 | And so we set off towards Tughlukabad , Balvinder doing his best to prove his point . |
| 14 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 15 | So we set out to find the truth behind the mystery — and discovered a woman who forged a dazzling career with precision and determination . |
| 16 | So they set up this fund to compensate victims in serious cases of abuse . |
| 17 | So they set up their own crisis counselling service to console the victims of battle . |
| 18 | So they set about it , with the help of a co-op development agency , which provided them with management services . |
| 19 | Nevertheless I set off northwards , feeling sure that there would be other accommodation along the way . |
| 20 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 21 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 22 | When the novelty of criticism began to wear off we set up rival fringe performances . |
| 23 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 24 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 25 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 26 | At the Conservative Party Conference two weeks later I set out both the Government 's position and my own feelings . |
| 27 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 28 | An hour later we set off back for lunch , planning to bring back Penny in the evening when we 'd have another go with the rods and , of course , lift the nets . |
| 29 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 30 | Impassively they set about their work , and the machinery of post-crime science rolled into action . |