Example sentences of "[subord] he set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris . |
| 2 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen . |
| 4 | When he sets out from Rivendell Boromir blows his horn , the family heirloom , and is rebuked by Elrond for doing so ; but he takes no notice . |
| 5 | Known as ‘ Puffin' since childhood because of his hooked nose , he had worked with Baird on four previous films and had just finished making The Millionairess , starring Sophia Loren , when he set off for Sweden in October 1960 . |
| 6 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 7 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 8 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 9 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 10 | He shivered a little as he set off for home . |
| 11 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know what 's got into you , May , ’ he shouted , shaking his fist in the air as he set off in pursuit . |
| 13 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |