Example sentences of "set [adv prt] with [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | With the drinks set out and the food at the ready , I set off with Caroline , who had arrived from Denmark the night before . |
2 | However conditions seemed promising in the morning and we set off with lunch packs in our bags and hope in our hearts ! on the two-hour boat run there are always lots of birds to look at , and soon after we left ‘ the narrows ’ of the harbour entrance we were aware of black-browed albatrosses . |
3 | Val and I set off with intentions to watch the jumps , but the Skippers road to the bridge is specifically excluded from motor insurance policies and when we saw it , we understood why ; it 's a dirt track along a precipice . |
4 | Set up with help from a government subsidy aimed at encouraging renewable energy projects , the plant burns poultry litter from surrounding farms . |
5 | A substantial portion of the surpluses generated out of slave labour and the trade in cotton , sugar and tobacco was channelled into banking operations and undoubtedly provided one important element in the emergence of Britain 's banking system , with most of the major banking corporations of today tracing some part of their profits to earlier banks set up with finds derived from the triangular trade ( Fryer , 1984 , pp. 40ff ) . |
6 | So we are all set up with booze , sex , unrequited love , thoughts of separation , ambiguous sexual status , a grand piano for the singing of old songs and a sniffy Law dispensing trifle with a gimlet stare . |
7 | Aidan Canavan , chairman of the Dairy Farm Project — set up with aid from the International Fund for Ireland — said : ‘ The centre is one of the examples where success can be achieved by people getting together to work for their community in a non-sectarian way . |