Example sentences of "sets [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America .
2 of course , if the vacancy requirements fluctuate as well , as is the case with contractors , a kind of see-saw effect sets in with the recruitment team oscillating between periods of intense activity and chaos on the one hand , and having nothing to do on the other hand .
3 Gourlay opened the second set with a double , but two ends later found himself two sets down after a maximum 4 and a 3 gave Corsie the set 7-2 .
4 Camus sets off into the night .
5 But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ .
6 One person sets off across the pool facing away from the children and says ‘ What 's the time Mr Shark ’ ?
7 THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife .
8 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 .
9 He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith .
10 Lots of fun and excitement as Henry 's Cat sets off on a trip to Treasure Island
11 Sir Roy Strong stumbles off the block with his opening sentence ‘ The portrait was a child of the renaissance ’ , which seems to have forgotten about classical antiquity , but then sets off on a thought-provoking and terse survey of themes and ideas throughout the three centuries covered by the book .
12 He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church .
13 THE Queen 's racehorse trainer Lord Huntingdon sets off in a horsebox for Bosnia today to deliver supplies to an isolated village .
14 The entire cast , in costume and make-up , sets off in a vintage bus at 10 a.m. on the traditional annual pilgrimage to the children 's hospital .
15 A group of British cyclists sets off in the heart of Brussels .
16 Not that T. Behrens sets up as a psychologist .
17 A party of people sets out on a journey with all its different components like the jumbled up pieces of a jigsaw puzzle , Sophia thought , waiting for something — some event or just the passing of time — to fit them together into a whole .
18 And so if one of my colleagues sets out on a reform designed to get better value for money and a more effective health service , I 'm going to support him .
19 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 .
20 LET'S GO surfing now — John Milius ’ most successful movie sets out on the ocean wave of West Coast surfing culture following the metamorphosis of three macho beach bums during the '60s decade of lost innocence , alcoholism , the draft and the mythic rites played out on the ocean wave .
21 Katie sets out on the trail of the kidnappers and her song for Ben becomes the means to save his life .
22 IF EAST GERMANY finally sets out on the path to reform without further bloodshed and repression , it will be largely thanks to the efforts of the Protestant church .
23 Besides , I do n't think anyone sets out with the intention of hurting people .
24 A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination .
25 Sir , I 'd like to bring your attention to erm a plan prepared by Partnership which is submitted as part of their evidence , which erm sets out for the south and southwest the er coalescence of existing settlements .
26 A white , middle-class widow sets out for the hinterland in search of her maid 's son ; but the police have found him first .
27 As a male sets out along a branch , he leans over sideways , lifts one of his back legs and carefully expels a few drops of urine on to the sole of his foot .
28 The last sentence , however , sets out from the presumption that the testator 's intention is clear , but might be defeated because he has used inadequate words .
29 The text sets out from the premiss that the beneficiary of the trust ought to obtain the actual land ( rather than its value ) ; the question therefore is who ought to pay off the creditor to whom the land is presently pledged .
30 She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise .
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