Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was a cold , bright morning when we set out cheerfully down the river . |
| 4 | We set off again along the gravel paths . |
| 5 | Did they set up again under a different name ? |
| 6 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 7 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 8 | ‘ There 'll be scent enough today , ’ she said as they set off again for the meet . |
| 9 | They set off again at a stately pace . |
| 10 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 11 | He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate . |
| 12 | Gloag moved to Glasgow where , with an unmarried sister , he set up home in the university . |
| 13 | He set off cheerfully for a final phase in Worcestershire , saying complacently , ‘ I do n't want any bands here when I come back . ’ |
| 14 | He had n't time , he thought , and he set off briskly towards the blacksmith 's , his rucksack and his bags already bulging . |
| 15 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 16 | A song thrush opted for a life on the road when it set up home on a pick-up truck at Harwell , see below . |
| 17 | Joseph lunged toward it , but the sight of him terrorized the gibbon further , and it set off frantically towards the only visible refuge . |