Example sentences of "when [pron] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Bully was in the front garden when she set out for Pack Meeting , he would leap the gate and bound up to her , putting his great front paws against her chest , and barking at her . |
| 2 | ‘ Joanna will have her work cut out to convince him that she 's the equal of any man when they set up in practice together . ’ |
| 3 | When they set off for church he set off for London , driving fast . |
| 4 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 5 | They had been visiting friends , they had enjoyed their evening and the time had gone quickly so it was rather late when they set off for home . |
| 6 | NICK FALDO and Tom Kite , the reigning Open champions on both sides of the Atlantic , will meet ‘ head to head ’ when they set off in pursuit of the second major title of the golfing year in the US Open on Thursday . |
| 7 | Colleagues , great credibility should go to John Prescott , Shadow Transport Secretary , who has demanded that all foreign registered tankers should provide details of routes when they set off from port so that all operators can be dealt with . |
| 8 | Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen . |
| 9 | When he sets out from Rivendell Boromir blows his horn , the family heirloom , and is rebuked by Elrond for doing so ; but he takes no notice . |
| 10 | Known as ‘ Puffin' since childhood because of his hooked nose , he had worked with Baird on four previous films and had just finished making The Millionairess , starring Sophia Loren , when he set off for Sweden in October 1960 . |
| 11 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 12 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 13 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 14 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |