Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was time for News on Sunday to set off on the trail of the people and organizations who had theorized about the prospects for a popular left-wing newspaper for so long . |
| 2 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 3 | The Vimy was constructed on February 13 , it was No 13 of the batch , the Vickers crew numbered 13 , the Vimy reached Newfoundland on May 26 ( twice 13 ) , Jack arrived in Newfoundland on May 13 , and because 13 was lucky to him Jack wanted to set off on the attempt on June 13 . |
| 4 | In Dew v. Parsons ( 1819 ) 2 B. & Ald. 562 an attorney was held entitled to set off against a claim by a sheriff the excess amount which he had paid to the sheriff for the issue of warrants over what the sheriff was legally entitled to charge . |
| 5 | In this perspective to set up as a writer at all is an extraordinary act , while artist becomes a word only to be invoked only of others , never about the self . |
| 6 | All systems go , then his father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . ’ |
| 7 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 8 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 9 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 10 | Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future . |
| 11 | According to the ADC , in the cases quoted by councils the properties by and large fulfilled all the principal criteria set down by the Government for a property suitable for occupation by older people , ie that it was let to persons over pensionable age ; access was relatively easy ; the accommodation was on level ground ; the dwelling had no more than two bedrooms ; the heating arrangements were adequate ; the property was reasonably conveniently located . |
| 12 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 13 | But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) . |
| 14 | Looking anxiously behind them , the children set off down the street with the nanny . |
| 15 | ‘ All right , Belinda , I 'll drive you , ’ said David and they all set off across the grass to the dodgem stand . |
| 16 | Set off along the road in cloud but the sun soon broke through . |
| 17 | They set off along the coast of Venezuela and Colombia , south to Panama , past Costa Rica and Nicaragua , until finally they reached Honduras , their intended destination . |
| 18 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 19 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 20 | I set off to the sound of Mick trying to tune into his sports programme . |
| 21 | The court heard her ordeal began when she and the children set off with the salesman on what they thought would be a family shopping trip . |
| 22 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 23 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 24 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 25 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 26 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 27 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 28 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 29 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 30 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |