Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1978 she moved into editing and after editing professional magazines and papers in the mining and mineral field she set up in 1989 her own business Editorial Services and now works freelance from home . |
| 2 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 3 | In the intervening time , he would become a changed man , as would many who set out with such high hopes to win back the holy earth of Outremer . |
| 4 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 5 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 6 | Now we had quite a problem trying to obtain erm a bottle size the two litre size at a reasonable price when we set out on this er thing . |
| 7 | Mr Deputy Speaker , as the honourable members knows , our S S A calculations are on slightly different basis from England as we set out in this report and we do believe that local authorities should have the maximum flexibility to make their own decisions and it is therefore a matter for local debate . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be difficult to invent a more complicated system for taxing the self-employed even if one set out with that very objective , ’ Mr Lamont said . |
| 9 | The 13-year-old West Bridgford LTC player managed to grapple his way from one set behind in this epic encounter , eventually wearing down a smaller-framed Neathey to take the match by two sets to one . |
| 10 | and er they set off in hot pursuit . |
| 11 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 12 | Welsh- Pearson , the company he set up in 1915 , remained small , making only three or four films a year , thus resisting the pressures for mass production that prevailed at the larger studios . |
| 13 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 14 | He set out at ten ; he viewed as many houses as possible , trudged across miles of fitted carpet and sanded floors , exchanged weary smiles with anxious vendors . |
| 15 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |
| 16 | Faldo savages the press for his treatment at Muirfield , where he set out as one of the hottest favourites in Open history . |
| 17 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 18 | By the time he set off with Christian he had half formulated a plan to help with the future he had in mind for himself . |
| 19 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 20 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |
| 21 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 22 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 23 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |