Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was instructed to leave my prejudices behind and simply concentrate on having a good time , so I set off with that one idea in mind . |
| 2 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 3 | But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all . |
| 4 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 5 | Now we had quite a problem trying to obtain erm a bottle size the two litre size at a reasonable price when we set out on this er thing . |
| 6 | Mr Deputy Speaker , as the honourable members knows , our S S A calculations are on slightly different basis from England as we set out in this report and we do believe that local authorities should have the maximum flexibility to make their own decisions and it is therefore a matter for local debate . |
| 7 | As soon as they set off on separate duties , they both visibly relaxed . |
| 8 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |