Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must not remember the story I set out to tell . |
| 2 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 3 | It did n't matter how innovative the products I set out to market actually were , I could not prevent myself from seeing them already in some illimitable bazaar of the far future , long obsolete and hopelessly dated , so much cosmological car-boot-sale fodder . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So with borrowed gear , no harness and a stranger I set off . |
| 6 | I still have a note of the objectives for the review I set out at Wilton Park : |
| 7 | Meanwhile in Egypt Isis had heard what Seth had done to her husband and in great distress she set out to find him . |
| 8 | As soon as Topaz returned to Stone Towers she set about its renovation . |
| 9 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 10 | ‘ Despite the aggressive treatment and the rigorous fitness programme we set up , he began to deteriorate . |
| 11 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 12 | After a welcome by the leaders of both parties we set off to show Jacques and Odile around Royston , which is steeped in history . |
| 13 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 14 | At nightfall they set off down the escarpment and in holiday mood were soon bowling merrily along the coast road . |
| 15 | After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare . |
| 16 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 17 | Criticism of the phenomenological approach to RE was given in Chapter 4 , particularly on the grounds that in practice it tends to lose touch with much of the religion it sets out to understand and include . |
| 18 | After finishing his apprenticeship he set up a business with this uncle , but it failed . |
| 19 | ‘ That this deal he set up with the Iranians through Nadirpur — part of the arrangement was that Philippe be released — in return for French arms . ’ |
| 20 | It is the void he set out to fill . |
| 21 | ‘ She drew a door for herself through all the barriers I set up around myself and walked in . ’ |
| 22 | After a shop at Sainsburys in Camden Town and a quick cold meat and salad lunch I set off by Tube to Finsbury Circus to one of the big offices of BP for a Management and Membership Committee meeting of the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 23 | The report says her conversion appears genuine and points to the cabinet-level environment committee she set up to convert the ‘ ungreen and powerful ’ Treasury , transport , and energy ministries , but time was running out . |
| 24 | That is why in this manifesto we set out a clear analysis of Britain 's problems and our proposals for putting them right . |
| 25 | But that is n't the question we set out with . |
| 26 | After lunch they set off to Kingsburgh for one of their most memorable encounters . |
| 27 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 28 | In December they set up a new one to consider moving the capital . |
| 29 | After these experiences they set out to rebuild the prison system , from the perspective of prisoners turned gaolers . |
| 30 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |