Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 2 | Each time he scrambled out , took a short rest , and set out again for the next refuge . |
| 3 | We finished serving lunch and coffee and cleared up , and as soon as I decently could I left the kitchen and set off forward up the train . |
| 4 | Then they form up into single file with as many as fifty in a column , each animal touching the rear end of the one ahead with its stick-like antennae , and set off briskly across the sandy sea floor , heading for deeper water . |
| 5 | The guide nodded and set off briskly across the floor . |
| 6 | She turned from the shop-window and set off briskly down the street towards the Stefansplatz , Karelius striding alongside . |
| 7 | Fearon dragged it on over his sweater , tugged a disreputable flat cap over his wet hair and set off briskly towards the yard . |
| 8 | At the Grand , David Swan fastened his amended photopass to his jacket and set off briskly towards the conference centre some two hundred yards away . |
| 9 | Next day they left Seton to his problems and set off northwards up the coast for Dunbar , thirty miles . |
| 10 | With a half-shudder , she left the lower bowel and set off gingerly along the rather treacherous surface of the greater intestine which coiled before her — a tunnel she was n't too sure she saw the light at the end of . |
| 11 | With that he relaxed his grasp and set off alone in the direction of the Chelonians . |
| 12 | This time the otter does n't attempt to eat the fish in the water , but sets out purposefully for the shore , to disappear out of my view below the bank . |