Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 2 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 3 | You may see then how I set about developing … ’ |
| 4 | The introduction and the section on " small group work " in Chapter 3 shows how we set about planning the early stages of a drama lesson . |
| 5 | And that is how we set off , arm-in-arm , down Sunningdale Drive past Sussex Gardens where the bowls players were dying slowly in well-pressed whites , towards the London Road . |
| 6 | Quite how they set about it I do not know , but it was an unusual and , in the circumstances , praiseworthy initiative . |
| 7 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 8 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 9 | This is one of the reasons why I set up my Foundations . |
| 10 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 11 | When turning completely it is always preferable to turn by leaning the sail over the back of the board ( a tack ) since this will turn the board into wind and make it easier to return from where you set out . |
| 12 | This is an area where you set out the charts and graphics to be used in the show and shuffle them into the required order , adding different types of transition effects between ‘ slides ’ . |
| 13 | An example of this was when we set up a shot on a Caribbean island with palm tree and sunset and " Pure Gold " . |
| 14 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 15 | It was a cold , bright morning when we set out cheerfully down the river . |
| 16 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |
| 17 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 18 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 19 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |