Example sentences of "set [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 2 | Although he showed particular fondness for Jessie , John certainly was not generous to the couple when after the war her husband wanted to set up in the textile business in Newcastle . |
| 3 | Jack agreed and they set off down the track side , treading carefully in case they tripped over signal wire . |
| 4 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 5 | But at least they had the car and , forcing one of the Germans to drive , they set off along the coast road towards Mersa Brega . |
| 6 | From there they set off to the landing ground which was Fraser 's target . |
| 7 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 8 | Did n't you even stop to consider that , before you set off for an evening drive ? ’ |
| 9 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 10 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 11 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 12 | ALDWYCH Group staff set off on a treasure hunt — only to find they had to visit 15 pubs en route ! |
| 13 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 14 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 15 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 16 | The new bass made use of Leo 's bolt-on maple neck , with the now traditional long-scale measurement ( the distance in which the top string can vibrate freely , ie. from the nut to where it passes over the bridge saddle ) of 34″ , and twenty frets set directly into the maple fretboard . |
| 17 | The system as a whole has to be " smashed " and set aside by a vanguard party of intellectuals which leads the working class in extra-and anti-parliamentary action towards socialism ( see also Chapter 7 ) . |
| 18 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 19 | ‘ There are too many people around who think it 's easy to make sandwiches and will set up in a garden shed , almost , ’ said Jim Winship , director of the British Sandwich Association . |
| 20 | A group of more than 30 travellers ' caravans have now set up on a roadside site a mile from the village at Crew crossroads . |
| 21 | OsO4 vapour is highly toxic and this manipulation is best undertaken by incubating embryos in small drops of 0504 under oil in plastic Petri dishes ( set up in a fume cupboard ) . |
| 22 | Many ex-army tradeswomen set up in the brewing trade , opening licensed houses where they could . |
| 23 | In addition to jobs , the measurable benefits of economic TNPs include the exports due to foreign firms , and the backward linkages that they set up in the host economy , that is the locally produced goods and services they purchase , either from existing firms or from firms established primarily to supply the TNCs . |
| 24 | England 's champs set out on the glory trail with a warning to keep their cool |
| 25 | You started off at the beginning of your beat — set out on the north side of Lime Street — took a quarter of an hour to walk round and try all the locks . |
| 26 | But they set out for the Town Hall none the less . |
| 27 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |
| 28 | Conditions laid down by Haussmann along the lines of those set out by the Monopoly Commission , that the companies divest themselves of certain divisions which , if merged , would be against German interests in the arms industry , were eventually agreed to by both MBB and Daimler . |
| 29 | According to this system , Structure Plans are supposed to spawn District Plans : the District Plans are supposed to look at problems set out in the Structure Plan in more depth , and they are supposed to show how general planning policies might be worked out in practice . |
| 30 | Where agreement has been reached between the parties that the former matrimonial home be held upon terms similar to those set out in the court order it has been known ( in a natural desire to save costs ) for the agreement to remain based on correspondence between the parties or their solicitors , no other documentation being prepared . |