Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 2 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 3 | The company manufactured electrical components and suffered serious competition from ex-employees who set up in business themselves and poached the company 's customers . |
| 4 | After a pause to coil up the heavy ropes we set off for Gimmer . |
| 5 | Encouraged by their interpretations of each others ' dreams they set off against Humbaba to cut down his cedar forests . |
| 6 | Rushing off across the moors he set off in pursuit of Tamara . |
| 7 | But I always think so many mums , dads and children who set off for work and school in the morning wo n't be coming back . ’ |