Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to continue postgraduate studies I had applied for some financial assistance for part-time fees , under a scheme created by the Home Office and set up specifically in recognition of a lack of higher educational qualifications in the police service ( HO Circular 29/74 ) . |
| 2 | He was struck by Bastin 's cool , calculated style , and set out hotfoot for Devon . |
| 3 | The big table had been covered with a checked table-cloth and set out tidily with cutlery and mats and glasses . |
| 4 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 5 | Meredith backed out slowly to avoid other shoppers making for their cars with their overladen squeaky trolleys and set off out of town . |
| 6 | We packed up all our kit again and set off back to Orange , across the frozen landscape of southern France , which was having one of the coldest winters in living memory . |
| 7 | Then he got off and set off back towards Slough . |
| 8 | If the shepherd had done as George feared and set off alone in search of Jonadab 's flocks , he would never find his way across the unfamiliar moors . |
| 9 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |