Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dang and I finally set out for the village where she wanted to start the ‘ cottage industry ’ . |
| 2 | Then , from U hu , someone else sets off for Lāmri and for Lorpa . |
| 3 | ‘ I never set out to be famous , to set records , to do anything particular . |
| 4 | ‘ I never set out to be a role model for girls or women , ’ she said in a recent interview , ‘ and I do n't conform to any stereotype . |
| 5 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 6 | She soon set off for Leicester , where she sobbed ‘ hideously ’ and was put in prison with two unlucky fellow-pilgrims . |
| 7 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 8 | And wherever she might wander , she always set out in the same direction . |
| 9 | She was eighteen and had never been out of England , yet she unhesitatingly set off for a remote and savage country in Africa . |
| 10 | She then set out to her sister 's , some considerable journey away on the other side of the town . |
| 11 | Jennifer Flay , a New Zealand dealer who recently set up in Paris 's arty Marais district of Paris represented work by a stable comprising Felix Gonzalez-Torres , Liz Larner , Christian Marclay and Matthew McCaslin . |
| 12 | We finally set out in the evening . |
| 13 | There would be a trust or something probably set up for him that 's the normal |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held . |
| 15 | We then set out for Muscat , but with nightfall approaching , we landed in Abu Dhabi . |
| 16 | Next morning we again set off beside the river . |
| 17 | We never set out to be mealy-XXXX mouthed in our approach . |
| 18 | The Range Rover was crammed with so much food as they finally set off for Brides Haven that Leonora expressed doubt that the boat would carry it all . |
| 19 | The gang told the woman they were heading towards Widnes , and they then set off in a blue car . |
| 20 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 21 | Coleridge had spent three weeks in Oxford before , on 5 July 1794 , he finally set off on his Welsh expedition , promising Southey that he would rejoin him later to make further plans for settling in America . |
| 22 | Knowing the risk he was taking , he still set out for Peking : why ? |
| 23 | He always set off on his journey early on Monday morning , and returned on Wednesday . |
| 24 | It clearly sets out to branches delivery goals that depots intend to achieve and it sets out how , in return , the branches can aid the delivery process . |
| 25 | Is is it correctly set out on the day 's programme ? |
| 26 | Yet his claims for Ultra , which he originally set out in his book The Ultra Secret , sometimes sound overwrought . |
| 27 | He immediately set off for Germany in a van and the rest is history . |
| 28 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
| 29 | He simply set off with no further glance at her , and Jenna seethed . |
| 30 | Within ten minutes the shark was visible but it then set off on a strong deep dive taking 100 yards of line despite a heavy drag setting . |