Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 2 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 3 | He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it . |
| 4 | We have recently found out that we have now got the best of all of these or the worst of all of these in Anglo-Saxon Roman law whereby we set out was , is reasonable in law and then they hear from Saf Health and Safety Executive tell us they are not going to enforce it . |
| 5 | You may see then how I set about developing … ’ |
| 6 | The introduction and the section on " small group work " in Chapter 3 shows how we set about planning the early stages of a drama lesson . |
| 7 | And that is how we set off , arm-in-arm , down Sunningdale Drive past Sussex Gardens where the bowls players were dying slowly in well-pressed whites , towards the London Road . |
| 8 | Quite how they set about it I do not know , but it was an unusual and , in the circumstances , praiseworthy initiative . |
| 9 | I asked Rooney how he set about completing a picture . |
| 10 | I asked Blamey how he set about painting a portrait . |
| 11 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 12 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 13 | erm , where I set out my interpretation of what that means , and I do n't think it 's very helpful to read that out to you , but I think you will find that it 's er erm a very broad er description of what the new settlement should be seeking to achieve , now Mr erm I think has misunderstood our position on this question of erm the appropriate size for the new settlement , and I think if I 'm correct he suggested that we were promoting a a size of fourteen hundred , the point I think I would make is that the larger the new settlement erm the greater the range and the quality of services and facilities that can be provided , and I think you have to distinguish between what developers say they are prepared to provide , on the one hand in a new settlement , whatever the size , the quality of the retail or recreational social facility that occupies that physical provision , and also its long term viability , and I would suggest that a larger new settlement of the size that we are suggesting , is much more likely to er attract a range of quality providers of services and facilities than a smaller new settlement , and also Mr Grantham er raised the issue of the question of the development program , and what might be expected in terms of services and erm during the development program , and of course I think that would be a matter for any specific proposal , or a ma a matter of discussion between the local planning authority concerned and the developer , and I would expect it to be something erm that was included within a section one O six agreement . |
| 14 | This is one of the reasons why I set up my Foundations . |
| 15 | That 's why she set up Images Ahead , a service which enables you to find and try a new hairstyle BEFORE visiting the hairdresser . |
| 16 | She was only 28 when she set up on her own in 1976 , after starting her career as a researcher . |
| 17 | The Isis was not a line-of-battle ship , but like the Adamant she acted as one in the battle of Camperdown in October 1797 , when she set about the much heavier Gelijkheid ( 64 guns ) , one of the eleven Dutch ships that were taken . |
| 18 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |
| 19 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 20 | When turning completely it is always preferable to turn by leaning the sail over the back of the board ( a tack ) since this will turn the board into wind and make it easier to return from where you set out . |
| 21 | This is an area where you set out the charts and graphics to be used in the show and shuffle them into the required order , adding different types of transition effects between ‘ slides ’ . |
| 22 | An example of this was when we set up a shot on a Caribbean island with palm tree and sunset and " Pure Gold " . |
| 23 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 24 | It was a cold , bright morning when we set out cheerfully down the river . |
| 25 | At the table , in paragraph seven where we set out our differences from the County Council . |
| 26 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |
| 27 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 28 | The , the , the anomaly here this is when they set up the C C T legislation , all the services contracted out had to make a of return that 's a profit in any language and that to me is a commercial decision and should never have been exempted from the very start anyway . |
| 29 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 30 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |