Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our 1963 Herald 12/50 was keen to get going , and at the allotted time we set off through the Borders and towards North Yorkshire . |
| 2 | After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare . |
| 3 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 4 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 5 | The aircraft-carrier Clemenceau , though it set off for the Gulf and its movements were followed initially by Le Monde , returned to Toulon in October after a 55-day voyage . |