Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of just one 45cm eel , six 30cm eels had been sent , so I duly set off , having re-arranged a tank to put them in . |
| 2 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 3 | ‘ I just set out to bowl it straight and make sure the batsman had to play at it . |
| 4 | Dang and I finally set out for the village where she wanted to start the ‘ cottage industry ’ . |
| 5 | I also set up a room for the program under review , so I can just click at the side of the screen and move to it . |
| 6 | Just to be on the safe side I also set up a stick float and a bleak whip but I was hoping I would n't need them — so much for being positive . |
| 7 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 8 | As I shakily set down my glass , with a new attack of the clammy sweats seeping into my shirt , things grew more terrifying . |
| 9 | I now set out the reasons for which I agreed that the appeal should be allowed . |
| 10 | Certainly I do n't let small things stand in my way when I really set out to achieve my ends . ’ |
| 11 | I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year . |
| 12 | I then set about finding a genuine buyer , which was why I needed to know what sort of planning permission would be accepted by the council . |
| 13 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 14 | Then , from U hu , someone else sets off for Lāmri and for Lorpa . |
| 15 | I therefore set about thinking of some witty reply ; some statement which would still be safely inoffensive in the event of my having misjudged the situation . |
| 16 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 17 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I never set out to be famous , to set records , to do anything particular . |
| 19 | ‘ I never set out to be a role model for girls or women , ’ she said in a recent interview , ‘ and I do n't conform to any stereotype . |
| 20 | These are my conclusions now : I never set out to do this when I was twenty or fifteen , but I realise , after many years , that this was fundamentally what I was aiming to do . |
| 21 | I recently set up a new tank , and used a large piece of bogwood , for the benefit of my plecs . |
| 22 | I recently set up a tank specifically to try to breed the attractive little Peacock Goby , Tateurndina ocelicauda . |
| 23 | Q I recently set up a 48″ x 12″ x 18″ Mbuna community . |
| 24 | Q I recently set up a 36″ × 18″ × 15″ tropical community tank . |
| 25 | In her catalogue essay , Rosemary Betterton draws attention to the development in the 1970s of a feminist politics of representation which justifiably set out to expose and dismantle the patriarchal jurisdiction over creative and institutional practices . |
| 26 | These new sweeping powers opened the door to planned redevelopment on an extensive scale , an important forerunner to the Town and Country Planning Act , 1947 , which effectively set up the post-war statutory planning system . |
| 27 | Setting out the authority , scope and application of accounting standards , the Accounting Standards Board ( ASB ) has published its Foreword to Accounting Standards , which also sets out the procedures whereby the ASB issues accounting standards and their relationship to international accounting standards . |
| 28 | RANGERS ' fourth successive championship seems assured after their 2–1 win over Dundee United at Tannadice , which also set up a Premier Division scoring record . |
| 29 | Headington Amateurs were good value for their two nil victory over Thame at Barton , which now sets up a quarter final tie at Witney . |
| 30 | Somebody even set off firecrackers down the street ! |