Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors . |
| 2 | The communications grant NEC set up there in 1970 , and its daily output of two or three tonnes of chips is jetted up to Tokyo every evening . |
| 3 | Hector and Ewan set off together . |
| 4 | Olive Saunderson and Norman Field met and fell in love in predictably romantic circumstances when the Fields and the Saundersons were guests on board Lord Vestey 's yacht on a cruise to Norway in 1909 They were married the same year in Dublin and returned to England to set up home . |
| 5 | In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them . |
| 6 | One of the points which might be made here is that Labov sets out explicitly to provide a model for handling communities not known to the investigator . |
| 7 | The scene between the old man and Helen sets up precisely the type of orthodox structure and subverting spirit Dollimore indicates . |
| 8 | Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber . |
| 9 | GORDON Brand Jnr has a stranglehold on the GA European Open at East Sussex National but Seve Ballesteros set out today believing he can break it . |
| 10 | Next morning Helen set off early to see Joanna while Sophie dealt with several clients who , having heard of Joanna 's accident , were sympathetic and concerned . |
| 11 | Five weeks later , on 13 November , Southey and Edith Fricker were secretly married in the same church , Southey setting off almost immediately afterwards to spend six months with his uncle in Portugal , leaving Edith behind . |
| 12 | TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway . |
| 13 | ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface … |
| 14 | Mary set off cheerfully . |
| 15 | In 1946 Howard Stenton Jones set up home with Margaret Burns in Stanstead Road , Brixton , along with Terry , Margaret 's son from her previous marriage . |
| 16 | Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us . |
| 17 | In the month of Sāun , Kalchu and Sigarup set out together across the mountains on a pilgrimage to Rānāmāche Lake . |
| 18 | Bonington set off alone for civilisation , reaching a village after descending the dangerous icefalls and cutting his way through the jungle for a day and a half . |
| 19 | So Wolfgang set off once more , this time with his mother , on a journey which was to lead to Paris — and tragedy . |
| 20 | Shaw set up Kerly for Newry 's opener in the eighth minute when the Canterbury star beat Brian Blythe with an angled shot after a superb off-the-ball run . |
| 21 | It was also pointed out that when Montupet set up close to West Belfast , Richard Needham claimed it would bring up to 1000 new jobs to West Belfast . |
| 22 | On the Somerset Levels , inundated by heavy floods in 1872 and 1873 , a report described how ‘ Ague set in early in the spring and is now very prevalent … among the poorer families who are badly fed and clothed . ’ |