Example sentences of "and set [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successful and Set to Go |
| 2 | Hooded brass or chrome floor lamps make especially good reading lamps since they can be moved around to various chairs or sofas , and set to shine on books , or they can be directed onto a wall or ceiling . |
| 3 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 4 | Furious , Richard hired thirty ships from the Marseilles merchants and set sail for Genoa , where Philip had arrived before him and promptly fallen ill . |
| 5 | Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards . |
| 6 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 7 | Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights . |
| 8 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 9 | He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark . |
| 10 | The fisherman cut their lines and set sail for port , but the sea serpent continued to follow them . |
| 11 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |
| 12 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 13 | They pointed out that economies prepared to allow ‘ a bit of inflation here and there ’ would include Britain , where the inflation rate is already one of the highest in the European Community and set to rise from 7.3 per cent to around 8 per cent later this week . |
| 14 | The Lord Chancellor has proposed controversial legal aid reforms , reducing eligibility in view of booming costs : £1.1 billion in 1992-93 and set to rise . |
| 15 | With sales of unleaded now well ahead of those of leaded and set to surge even higher after the Budget , the survival of relatively cheap unleaded petrol is assured only as long as the Autumn Statement which from this year replaces the traditional spring Budget . |
| 16 | Now that we have the front bed working and set to knit , the yarn that is not taken into the slip needle hook no longer forms a float , but is taken up by the opposite needle and is knitted whilst the slip needle still retains its original knitted stitch . |
| 17 | TRANSFORMER 2 follow up their massive ‘ Pacific Symphony Too ’ club hit with ‘ Fruit Of Love ’ , already creating a stir and set to step out of the clubs and branch off into higher regions . |
| 18 | Waiting in the wings is the C112 supercar , powered , we now believe , by the new V12 engine and set to make its first public appearance at the Frankfurt show in September . |
| 19 | In the end , leaders will be supported in the same way as they always have been : by winning people to Christ , who then begin to tithe their income in order to support and set free their leaders for full-time work in the church . |
| 20 | And of course Frankfurt was the natural time and setting to confirm the details , ( already divulged in this column some months ago ) , that the singles week top tier tournaments in 1993 onwards , will offer a minimum $1.7m prize money , compared with $1m at present . |
| 21 | Five top players shocked their province by upping sticks and setting sail for Japan . |
| 22 | and setting sail the Kingham Hill round the world crew from Oxfordshire have reached Madeira … next port of call the Falklands |
| 23 | It was an emotional moment back in nineteen forty as Cliff , Dinah and their sister Sheila waved goodbye to their family and friends and set sail for America . |