Example sentences of "setting [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new timetables will relate to the overall periods up to setting down for trial . |
| 2 | any motor vehicle standing on a part of a road specially set aside for the parking of vehicles , or as a stand for hackney carriages , or as a stand for public service vehicles , or as a place at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers where compliance with this regulation would conflict with the provisions of any order , regulations or byelaws governing the use of such part of a road for that purpose ; |
| 3 | The last 20 minutes was scrappy with nerves setting in for Leeds . |
| 4 | ‘ There is no sense of crisis , of panic setting in among businesses yet , but if interest rates go up again it could be very detrimental , ’ he said . |
| 5 | James Woodforde , ever a reliable source for the minutiae of late 18th-century life , wrote on 25 January 1794 that he could never remember having seen the barometer lower ; a savage and relentless winter was setting in throughout Britain and the rest of Europe . |
| 6 | Henry had set his house in order but had no thoughts about setting off on crusade . |
| 7 | David Dunbar and his team from Aid Unlimited are setting off on September 15 with a 12-ton lorry packed with vital supplies for orphanages in Arad , Tamisura , and Tackash . |
| 8 | A reminder that if you are going to the game , of course if is all tickets , so you must get your tickets from Oxford United before setting off on Tuesday evening . |
| 9 | It 's dependent on the purposeful pulling of triggers and setting off of bombs . |
| 10 | Edward Browning , a night club bouncer , called at his father 's home shortly before setting off for Scotland . |
| 11 | Obviously a thief had been about , but Dad had no time to investigate before setting off for work . |
| 12 | Most evenings , before setting off for work , he would call in at his parents ' house in Old Church Street . |
| 13 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 14 | Hardly a week passed without Anna Essinger setting off for London on a fund raising mission , invariably returning with promises to sponsor more refugee children . |
| 15 | There was time only to grab a piece of burnt toast before jumping into her car and setting off for London . |
| 16 | Leopold dawdled before setting off for home . |
| 17 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |
| 18 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 19 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 20 | ENGLAND will be setting off to India after Christmas to face the mystical eastern spinners with the help of a magic carpet . |
| 21 | In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused . |
| 22 | They 're setting off across Cirencester on a daily journey , carrying a little bit of their garden with them . |
| 23 | We sat down and talked for a while before setting off towards Hawes , as the sun broke through the clouds and the dog pulled him downhill towards the cairns . |
| 24 | David Hempleman-Adams is setting off in search of the Geomagnetic North pole in April . |
| 25 | Gav is setting off from Oxford , I am setting off from West London . |
| 26 | Gav is setting off from Oxford , I am setting off from West London . |
| 27 | Setting off from Rosedale village centre ( the bakery there does a rather stunning line in apricot and mincemeat slices ) , we headed up towards the infamous Chimney Bank ( a one in three climb , used for the British National Hillclimb Championships ) . |
| 28 | In June , they 'll be setting off from Herefordshire to Austria to take part in a re-run of the 1913 Alpine Rally . |
| 29 | We shall next explore some leading hermeneutic ideas , setting off from Max Weber . |
| 30 | Olympic champion Chris Boardman is going for it he 's riding in a twenty five mile time trial and will be setting off from Cumnor at six o clock … if you want to see him he 'll be wizzing up and down the A420 and the A34 … |