Example sentences of "so he set [adv] " in BNC.

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1 When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery .
2 But some doubted and one , Rol , who was a great war leader , mistrusted the feelings which prompted the Myrcans to wage war and was sickened by the killing , so he set off into the mountains to seek the Dwarves and avail himself of their ancient wisdom .
3 And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home .
4 Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river .
5 He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century .
6 To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable .
7 No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead .
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