Example sentences of "when [pron] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 2 | If Bully was in the front garden when she set out for Pack Meeting , he would leap the gate and bound up to her , putting his great front paws against her chest , and barking at her . |
| 3 | CLAUDIE Garner did n't hang about when she set out to break a UK speed record . |
| 4 | We do when we set up this group we asked |
| 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 | There were only three er criteria when we set out to choose a firm . |
| 7 | Er it would n't have been so bad you know because we when we set out first it was just you know to be successful at home and then we were successful over here and that was you know was the serious big surprise . |
| 8 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 9 | Colleagues , great credibility should go to John Prescott , Shadow Transport Secretary , who has demanded that all foreign registered tankers should provide details of routes when they set off from port so that all operators can be dealt with . |
| 10 | Brazil made a start when it set up its Grupo Interministerial in 1986 , with representatives from planning , Industry and Commerce , Finance , Science and Technology . |
| 11 | The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee . |
| 12 | A song thrush opted for a life on the road when it set up home on a pick-up truck at Harwell , see below . |
| 13 | The Mikulić government , which took office in May 1986 , was clearly influenced by such attitudes when it set out to curb the rapidly rising inflation of that year by it policy of ‘ programmed inflation ’ . |
| 14 | YOU have to wonder what the Bush administration was looking for when it set out , in early 1989 , to find a new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts . |
| 15 | Business Post , the express mail and parcel carrier went to TEC Consultants for advice when it set out on the path of getting its network accredited two years ago . |
| 16 | When he set up Channel 4 , he was given a mandate to have a very significant chunk as education , which was n't his background . |
| 17 | John failed dismally , however , when he set up any business with a partner . |
| 18 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
| 19 | Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie had defied an agreement between the Wardens of the Marches that no building should be erected by either side within the confines of the Debatable Land when he set up a tower above the Esk . |
| 20 | ‘ My father was n't exactly short of money when he set up the trust . ’ |
| 21 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |
| 22 | The process of information-gathering which ensued was certainly no more radical than that sanctioned by Nicholas I when he set up the Committee of 6 December 1826 . |
| 23 | When he set up his shop he already had plans for a town of books . |
| 24 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 25 | When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed . |
| 26 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 27 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care . |
| 30 | 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 . |