Example sentences of "[modal v] set [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they arrived in Brides Haven Rachel Pritchard welcomed Leonora with a cup of hot , strong tea , but Bryn soon cut across his wife 's chatter , pointing out that they must set out at once if he was to make the return trip before dark . |
| 2 | I mean , by the time you 'd set off walking you could set off at eleven and walk there till twelve go in there till two then you |
| 3 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |
| 4 | In particular , unsteadiness may set in at much lower Ra than it would in their absence . |
| 5 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 6 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 7 | It was decided that unless they got word of a change in direction from the scouts the Regent had sent to follow the enemy 's route , the Scots host , now numbering some thirteen thousand , would set off at first light , south-westwards , on a converging course . |
| 8 | The first to arrive , 3 Regiment , Army Air Corps , will set up at the base next month , with the staggered arrivals ending in 1995 when 4 Regiment , also presently based in Germany , settles in with a battalion of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and two Air-Sea Rescue helicopters . |
| 9 | The company will set aside at least four hectares of forest around each of the 100-odd woodpecker colonies in its lands in Arkansas , Louisiana , Mississippi and South Carolina . |
| 10 | For the first four Mondays in the month a walk will set off at 10.30am from Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre ( GR 1718579 ) . |
| 11 | The schoolboy team will set off at the end of the month . |