Example sentences of "he set [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him .
2 I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train .
3 He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him .
4 Waving his cheque book for $10 000 ( ready to Day to anyone who can produce convincing psychic phenomena ) he sets out on the exposure trail .
5 Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property .
6 And at last he set out for the meeting-place .
7 But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC .
8 Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him .
9 A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver .
10 Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley .
11 He set off along the side of the building .
12 When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed .
13 As his lad let him go , he set off towards the start flat out with his mouth open and his nose in the air .
14 He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house .
15 He set off towards the canal , leaving Robbie — as usual , she fumed — to scurry after him .
16 So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry .
17 He set off across the marble lake at a canter , with Helen panting behind .
18 But the pressure in his bladder was growing , and he set off across the square in search of a public toilet .
19 Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago .
20 Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more .
21 As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall .
22 He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster .
23 Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river .
24 ‘ Thank you , ’ he said through gritted teeth as he set off down the corridor .
25 He set off down the slope .
26 The lock snapped into place behind him , and he set off down the hill towards his car .
27 He set off into the fog to find out where he was , and came back to find Tess fast asleep .
28 His game-plan ensured , he set off into the advertising world , swiftly rising from accounts like Oxfam , Nescafé and the Government 's drink-and-drive campaign at Wasey Campbell- Ewald to Tinker and Partners , where he became deputy to Caroline Le Bas .
29 That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden .
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