Example sentences of "[adv] they set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 2 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 3 | Then they set off over the fields for the nearest village , two miles away . |
| 4 | Then they set off after the horses . |
| 5 | From there they set off to the landing ground which was Fraser 's target . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |