Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 2 | And so I set off across the field . |
| 3 | And so we set off towards Tughlukabad , Balvinder doing his best to prove his point . |
| 4 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 5 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 6 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 7 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 8 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 9 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 10 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 11 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 12 | Then we set off by car to tape some face-to-face interviews with funeral directors . |
| 13 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 14 | Then they set off over the fields for the nearest village , two miles away . |
| 15 | Then they set off after the horses . |
| 16 | From there they set off to the landing ground which was Fraser 's target . |
| 17 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 21 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 22 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |
| 23 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |