Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 2 | Pursuant to the Practice Direction ( Transfer of Action ) [ 1991 ] WLR 643 ( see para 1.35 ) , every action set down under automatic directions will be examined within seven days by a master to determine whether a transfer should be considered . |
| 3 | The typical North memo , according to General Galvin , implied that ‘ a whole lot more is going to happen that was really intended to happen in there ’ ; a colleague said they were North 's equivalent of a Potemkin Village , set down in unreal Washington . |
| 4 | She closed her tired , bloodshot eyes and saw herself again as a young woman , buxom and pregnant , set down in wild bush country , her only asset a husband as young and as strong as herself . |
| 5 | You 've heard before that Leeds works within the rules of the framework set down by regional planning guidance , and that makes very and the main stream of that guidance is the revitalization of our inner areas . |
| 6 | It said that far too many teachers had the perception that unless they followed the good practice set down by local authority advisers , their career prospects in the city would be blighted . |
| 7 | The rot set in during 1973 . |
| 8 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 9 | In January 1968 Crawford and his family , which now included baby Lucy , set off for six months in Hollywood . |
| 10 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 11 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 12 | She looked round the deep red walls of the dining room , set off with black paintwork . |
| 13 | By the time he set off with Christian he had half formulated a plan to help with the future he had in mind for himself . |
| 14 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 15 | The devaluation debate also needs careful examination before Labour or Livingstone set off down another dead end . |
| 16 | Joy and Alan set off on one of their marathon walks , this time a coast-to-coast sponsored effort to raise money for our local church , one of the oldest in North Wales . |
| 17 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 18 | Courtesy of their arrangements with Air New Zealand , ‘ Pooler ’ set off on 10th July for the land of the ruck and the long white cloud . |
| 19 | The whole detachment set off on 15 March from Siwa in the trucks of John Olivey 's Rhodesian patrol , heading for the Jebel mountains to the south of Benghazi , a journey of 400 miles . |
| 20 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These time-fused torpedoes fired , Micky Wynn set off at 0230 for the sea down river , while Commander Ryder moved into midstream to check the position , coming between the wrecks — five MLs were now blazing hulks — to within 250 yards ( 230m ) of the Mole 's batteries as Able Seaman Savage and his mate , AB F.A . |
| 23 | The first teams started the course at 10.30am and there followed a steady stream of contestants wandering around Battersea , struggling to remember long-forgotten pieces of general knowledge until the last team set off at 1.45 . |
| 24 | One day Tommy had to let someone else drive and that man set off at three-thirty prompt . |
| 25 | So on Saturday , Party Politics , dwarfing his 39 opponents , set off in new colours with new jockey Carl Llewellyn to see how many strides it would take him to cover the most famous four and a half miles in sport . |
| 26 | and er they set off in hot pursuit . |
| 27 | The gill is easy walking and leads up on to Crag Hill , which is near my home in the Dales , so one day , throwing work to one side , I cadged a lift down Barbondale to Blind Beck Bridge and set off in bright sunshine up the track to Bullpot Farm and Bull pot of the Witches . |
| 28 | This giant of a racehorse set off in last month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup — one of National Hunt racing 's blue riband events — with a heavy burden . |
| 29 | He changed his mind , and set off in another right direction , but this offered only more hills . |
| 30 | Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions . |