Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber . |
| 2 | TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway . |
| 3 | ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface … |
| 4 | Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us . |
| 5 | In the month of Sāun , Kalchu and Sigarup set out together across the mountains on a pilgrimage to Rānāmāche Lake . |
| 6 | On the Somerset Levels , inundated by heavy floods in 1872 and 1873 , a report described how ‘ Ague set in early in the spring and is now very prevalent … among the poorer families who are badly fed and clothed . ’ |