Example sentences of "he set [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | He sets off after the brothers , succeeds in imitating Haimet , and relieves Barat of his burden . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ That this deal he set up with the Iranians through Nadirpur — part of the arrangement was that Philippe be released — in return for French arms . ’ |
8 | On his return to Britain , he set up as a portrait painter in both London and Edinburgh , purveying the Grand Manner to all buyers , but even then it was a restrained baroque , tempered by Ramsay 's own unmelodramatic personality . |
9 | After six months as a house surgeon at Essex County Hospital , Colchester , he set up as a country doctor in the New Forest , his amusing recollections of which appeared in St. Bartholomew 's Hospital Journal ( 1933–5 ) . |
10 | Nick Hern has exchanged contracts with Random House for the acquisition of Nick Hern Books , the theatre list he set up as a part of Walker Books in 1988 which joined Random House in 1990 . |
11 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
12 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |
13 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
14 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
15 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
16 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
19 | As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition . |
20 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
21 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
22 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
23 | He set out with an army across the Border . |
24 | A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | He set off along the side of the building . |
27 | He set off towards the buses . |
28 | When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed . |
29 | As his lad let him go , he set off towards the start flat out with his mouth open and his nose in the air . |
30 | He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house . |