Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |
| 32 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
| 33 | I set out at the time the details of the areas where we would see new and better facilities reopening , and those better facilities have reopened . |
| 34 | I set out below the additional information which will be required for the week commencing [ date ] . |
| 35 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 36 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 37 | With a crew which included seven Fairbridge trainees from Strathclyde and East Lothian , Spirit of Scotland was one of the scores of sailing ships which set out on the 1993 Tall Ships Race when the starting cannon fired at Newcastle . |
| 38 | as if in recognition of the inherent limitations of the appeals system in this respect , the Magistrates ' Association issued a set of national guide-lines , in 1999 , which set out for the first time a scale of recommended penalties covering the 25 commonest offence types likely to come before the magistrates , together with guidance on the approach to be adopted for different degrees of seriousness . |
| 39 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 40 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Their lack of routine means you can often encourage them to feed when you want them to — such as just before you set off on an outing . |
| 43 | Did n't you even stop to consider that , before you set off for an evening drive ? ’ |
| 44 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |
| 45 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |
| 46 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 47 | And you set out in the morning and you know this road , you know this road well . |
| 48 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 49 | I arrived at the Castle early on Monday morning , and after a glass of rum and milk , we set out on the road . |
| 50 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 51 | We set out for the inlet , pulling a shrieking Maha , surrounded by the usual bevy of children and urged on by the boys , maids and especially the Youngest Son , who was always ready to tease and laugh . |
| 52 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
| 53 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 54 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 55 | Following our appointment to [ nature of appointment ] and in confirmation of our recent discussion with … , we set out below the nature of the responsibilities which we undertake in that appointment and our understanding of the further services which you wish us to perform . |
| 56 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 57 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |
| 58 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 59 | At nine o'clock that night we set out in the pouring rain , our car packed with people and stores of food , picking our way through lorries , mules and men on foot . |
| 60 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |