Example sentences of "[noun pl] he set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 2 | Rushing off across the moors he set off in pursuit of Tamara . |
| 3 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 4 | In this hole the chestnut-seller lit his fire , and on the gratings he set out his pans of roasted chestnuts . |
| 5 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 6 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
| 7 | So with his trusty bow and a quiver full of arrows he set out to prove everyone else wrong . |