Example sentences of "he set [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again .
2 The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today .
3 He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded .
4 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
5 He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat .
6 In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island .
7 He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea .
8 He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction .
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