Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
2 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
3 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
4 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
5 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
6 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
7 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
8 | 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 … |
9 | And you set out in the morning and you know this road , you know this road well . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
15 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
16 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
17 | We set off in an open 15-cwt. truck with an Italian driver who had also been a soldier , two Schmeisser machine pistols and a lot of ammunition ; the mountains at that time were infested with bandits , some of whom were Allied and Axis deserters . |
18 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
19 | In addition to jobs , the measurable benefits of economic TNPs include the exports due to foreign firms , and the backward linkages that they set up in the host economy , that is the locally produced goods and services they purchase , either from existing firms or from firms established primarily to supply the TNCs . |
20 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |
21 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |