Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jesus , the one set apart by the Spirit as the Son of God , dares to call God by this name . |
| 32 | Well they were usually a line of kids standing along the wall or something and one set out in the middle of the field and then you had to touch them and then you 'd be back to the wall and they had to do it . |
| 33 | I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train . |
| 34 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 35 | ‘ That this deal he set up with the Iranians through Nadirpur — part of the arrangement was that Philippe be released — in return for French arms . ’ |
| 36 | He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces . |
| 37 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 38 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 39 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 40 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 41 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 42 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 43 | A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver . |
| 44 | Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley . |
| 45 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 46 | He set off along the side of the building . |
| 47 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 48 | He set off towards the buses . |
| 49 | When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed . |
| 50 | As his lad let him go , he set off towards the start flat out with his mouth open and his nose in the air . |
| 51 | He set off towards the canal , leaving Robbie — as usual , she fumed — to scurry after him . |
| 52 | He felt a sense of anticipation as he set off towards the house . |
| 53 | There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care . |
| 54 | So the mantle fell on the second son , John , then 23 years old ; without more ado , he set off over the bridge into the Market Place , across to the George , and signed up for the infantry . |
| 55 | But the pressure in his bladder was growing , and he set off across the square in search of a public toilet . |
| 56 | He set off across the marble lake at a canter , with Helen panting behind . |
| 57 | Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago . |
| 58 | At the age of only nine , he set off on the London coach , and said a sudden and bewildered farewell both to his family and to his Devon childhood . |
| 59 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 60 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |