Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll never moan about hard work again , Jacko , ’ I lied as I set off to make a packed audience laugh like drains , with a face the colour of one and stomach that sounded like one . |
| 2 | That 's fine with me , and I set about securing a partial guarantee from the Philippines ' largest bank . |
| 3 | How do you set about choosing the best format ? |
| 4 | Just as bad was the passage of the retinue of Rigunth , as she set out to marry the Visigothic prince Reccared in 584 . |
| 5 | With the help of Steve and Rachael Dalton , from the Southampton Ski Stylers , and moral support and advice from John Shedden and Denis Edwards , at the ESC , she set about creating a well-organised path for young freestylers to follow to international level . |
| 6 | Sure enough , right in front of her astonished onlookers , she set about disembowelling a dead chick . |
| 7 | How do we set about getting the true beliefs that we need if our actions are to succeed in fulfilling our desires ? |
| 8 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 9 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 10 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 11 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , with the sweet taste of victory over bureaucracy in our mouths , we set about disbanding the old Amateur Radio Association , relinquishing the amateur call letters 1OAB , and organizing a commercial company , CHAB , Limited . |
| 14 | When we set about designing the new Apex , there was one particular feature around which the cooker was to be built … you . |
| 15 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 16 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 17 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 18 | Apart from establishing common criteria for the licensing of airlines and routes , they set out to guarantee an EC-wide right of cabotage ( the carriage of one country 's freight or passenger traffic by an airline from another country ) , to phase out capacity quotas at airports , and to end the preferential access arrangements accorded by some countries to their own domestic airlines . |
| 19 | Regression techniques , because they set out to make the squared distances of the residuals from the line as small as possible , can be unduly influenced by a few exceptional data points . |
| 20 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 21 | The news of the school uplift reached the two shopping in Kirkwall before they set out to travel the twenty miles or so back home . |
| 22 | Although there were no Viet Cong in the village and not a shot was fired at them , they set about slaughtering the Vietnamese civilians with a primitive and sexual savagery that is hard to believe . |
| 23 | LAMBS for live export could pose the biggest problem for the Scottish sheep industry as it sets out to establish a European Community approved national identification scheme before the July 1994 deadline . |
| 24 | It sets out to cover the normal stages of language development between the ages of 1 and 5 years , although it is intended principally as a clinical tool for children with delayed and deviant language . |
| 25 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 26 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 27 | The loudspeaker radio system he set up became a great success and became a model for others throughout Argentina . |
| 28 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 29 | She was Tim 's first choice when he set out to find the perfect engagement ring for the woman he loved . |
| 30 | Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic . |