Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] set [adv prt] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 2 | Do n't worry , stay calm and just set out to enjoy the experience . |
| 3 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 4 | He was elected president of French PEN in 1979 and immediately set about organising the world congress in Lyon . |
| 5 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 6 | If any benefit is to be derived from statistical analysis , it is important to define the nature of the problem and then set out to find the most appropriate way of solving it . |
| 7 | With this in mind , he introduced Wolfgang to the public at a concert at Salzburg university in the autumn of 1761 , and then set about arranging the first of their many international tours . |
| 8 | The Captain sent his Adjutant for the Sardinian file and then set about selecting a group of his most experienced men . |
| 9 | BOTH Yeovil and Altrincham have dispatched League opposition 15 times but TODAY set out to settle the argument as to which non-League outfit 's record was , in fact , the more impressive . |