Example sentences of "[verb] have set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 2 | The reconstruction retraced the couple 's movements from 7pm when they are thought to have set off from Mrs Arnold 's flat in Shernhall Road , Walthamstow , east London . |
| 3 | He appears to have set up in trade as a London mercer , and he was sufficiently well connected to obtain , like his uncle and elder brother , a minor office at court , that of ‘ harbinger ’ , arranging the progresses of the queen . |
| 4 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 5 | However , a touch of decadence appeared to have set in by then , in that the tough space bar of Star Wars ( universally recognized as a genre reference to saloon bars in Westerns where it was unwise to order sarsaparilla ) had given way to the court of Jabba the Hutt , full of twitching , pulsating creatures in perpetual motion but lacking menace or much humour . |