Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |
| 2 | With the youngest of her three children now at nursery school near their home in Somerset , Helen works part-time in the business she set up with a friend , organising helium balloon decorations for parties and weddings . |
| 3 | She was only 28 when she set up on her own in 1976 , after starting her career as a researcher . |
| 4 | In 1978 she moved into editing and after editing professional magazines and papers in the mining and mineral field she set up in 1989 her own business Editorial Services and now works freelance from home . |
| 5 | The room was silent as she scrabbled in her box of pieces and , from the very bottom , produced a couple that she set down on the board with two decisive clicks . |
| 6 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 7 | She got up at night and she set off towards the city all by herself , travelling through the forest . |
| 8 | She set off towards the junction to the left . |
| 9 | She was aware that he stood watching her as she set off towards the exit . |
| 10 | She set off towards what she imagined was the outer door , intending to walk in the open , but in a moment she had somehow lost herself in the maze of corridors . |
| 11 | She set off at once , and at the police station pretended to be a shy , frightened girl . |
| 12 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
| 13 | In 1930 she set off on her first solo long distance flight and broke the record from England to Australia . |
| 14 | THE husband of Julie Godwin told last night how he kissed her goodbye as she set off on her fateful holiday to South Africa . |
| 15 | Combining the public relations exercise of showing herself to her people with the need to exhibit her legal powers , she set off on court circuits or justice eyres which inevitably had to include the crime-ridden Borders . |
| 16 | This time Sausage accompanied her , and as she set off with the the two small boys and their three dogs , Korah , Dathan and Abiram , she reflected that they must look rather like a circus . |
| 17 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 18 | So , excited , and wondering what surprise her brother could conceivably have arranged , she set off with Sam in the britzka for Trouville . |
| 19 | ‘ They were always holding hands and he kissed her goodbye every day as she set off for work . ’ |
| 20 | For about six weeks before she set off for France , the long way via Cape Town , they made love feverishly . |
| 21 | There was a new sense of purpose in her step as she set off for the ‘ speeder . |
| 22 | She set off for Alès feeling comforted . |
| 23 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 24 | ‘ She said , ‘ This is what love is for — I 'm coming over , ’ and she set off for Rocamar and arrived at breakfast next day . ’ |
| 25 | She set off for Monte Samana alone . |
| 26 | She set off up the scarp , using juts and ledges as a diagonal staircase to take her on a course that would bring her close to Johannsen when they both reached the top of the incline . |
| 27 | Margery was rather fearful about disobeying her confessor , but Jesus assured her that he could overrule a priest , and she set off without money or luggage . |
| 28 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 29 | With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went . |
| 30 | She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead . |