Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) Wherever , in ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) above , the order requires one or other court to consider whether it ought to try the case or whether it ought to transfer it ( pursuant to the powers of transfer under ss 40(2) , 41(1) or 42(2) of the 1984 Act ) that court must have regard to the criteria laid down in art 7(5) and set out at the start of Chapter 13 . |
| 2 | And she turned away , Midnight 's shoes striking sparks in the darkness , and set off at a fast trot in the direction of Sam Sylvester 's semi-detached in Acacia Avenue . |
| 3 | The boy dropped the halter he was holding and set off at a run through the gateway and towards the big house . |
| 4 | ‘ Best be movin , ’ he said and they swung open the gate and set off at a jaunty pace back up the lane towards the main road . |
| 5 | But while the mystery deepened , the princess put royal problems behind her — and set off at daybreak on her second trip in four days to comfort cancer patients at a hospice . |
| 6 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 7 | Petion nodded and set off at a trot . |
| 8 | He turned randomly at right angles , and set off at a lolloping run . |
| 9 | While the creature sought height for another sweep Hrun scrambled to his feet and set off at a dead run for the woods at the edge of the arena . |
| 10 | Hrun slung the unconscious dragonlord over his shoulder and set off at a trot back to the arena . |
| 11 | I cradled the gun in my arms and set off at Emergency Speed , hurtling down the path back to the island at maximum , trusting to luck and adrenalin that I would n't put a foot wrong and end up lying gasping in the grass with a multiple fracture of the femur . |
| 12 | With the increased number of workmen living in the expanding town of Bletchley , a Bletchley workman 's train was put on and this picked up and set down at Loughton . |