Example sentences of "set back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 2 | Vic 's house , at the end of the village , was detached and set back from the road behind a neat lawn . |
| 3 | The pension is situated about 10 minutes walk from the village , set back from the road . |
| 4 | It was about a mile from the village , set back from the road , with tall iron gates , securely locked , at the entrance , and a few yards inside them a lodge . |
| 5 | This colonial-style bungalow stands in an elevated position , set back from the main road , with fine views of the small Somerset town of Crewkerne and the surrounding hills . |
| 6 | Past a house that was larger , set back from the road , beyond a lawn on which the rain made ponds , and he saw the flash of an old woman 's face at a window and then the falling of a lace curtain . |
| 7 | The former view was still available to the tourist , from the bridge that spanned the Archway Road , but Roxborough 's fine house had gone , replaced in the late thirties with an anonymous ten-storey tower , set back from the street . |
| 8 | I was directed up through the town , past some municipal gardens to a small building set back from the road . |
| 9 | It had small , dark windows in a main building set back from the road behind a staff block and a perimeter wall of newer red brick . |
| 10 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 11 | Far ahead of her , Sabine could see a cluster of buildings , obviously a farm , but on her left , set back from the road across an expanse of roughly cropped grass and stones , was a smaller property , whitewashed walls , and earth-red tiles , standing alone . |
| 12 | The Mercedes slid to a halt outside a fair-sized , 1930s detached house set back from the road by a small garden which had thoughtfully been concreted over . |
| 13 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |