Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is set in Ulster and sets out to depict ordinary people getting on with their lives . |
| 2 | With this attitude , despite the bad start , we knew it was going to be a Happy New Year after all , and set about restoring some order to our home … , . |
| 3 | In preparation for the interview , the braggart should think of all the uncomfortable , difficult questions he or she might be asked and set about preparing honest answers to them . |
| 4 | He was also a man of means and in 1839 , as a young architect , he bought up an estate in Cheltenham known as the Park and set about making fourteen acres of formal gardens and building six of speculative housing . |
| 5 | In 1987 the Shared Earth Trust took over the management of the farm and set out to reverse this process , establishing a long term programme to develop Denmark Farm as a haven for wildlife and a genetic bank from which wildlife species will be able to spread out and recolonise the surrounding countryside when future agricultural policies make this possible . |
| 6 | Bruce and his four brothers threw the English out of Dumfries castle and set off to capture other fortresses . |
| 7 | Since the test requires a knowledge of single words , but sets out to assess syntactical knowledge independently of vocabulary , a separate list of the words used is included . |