Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 2 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 3 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 4 | He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it . |
| 5 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 6 | And then they set off from there into Kirkwall about What time ? |
| 7 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 8 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 9 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 10 | She was only 28 when she set up on her own in 1976 , after starting her career as a researcher . |
| 11 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |
| 12 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |
| 15 | In 1868 he moved back to London , where he set up in practice at 46 Queen Anne 's Gate as a consulting civil engineer , in association with his son Sydney William Yockney . |
| 16 | Faldo savages the press for his treatment at Muirfield , where he set out as one of the hottest favourites in Open history . |