Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 2 | Appendices , which set out on separate numbered pages any detailed material , unsuitable for inclusion in the body of your report . |
| 3 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 4 | At Play In The Fields Of The Lord ( 15 ) Hector Babenco 's lengthy ( over three hours ) but stunningly-wrought ecological tragedy , shot entirely on location in Amazonia , centres on a group of missionaries and a Cheyenne half-breed who set out in different ways to ‘ save ’ a tribe of rain-forest Indians but bring them only death , disease and destruction . |
| 5 | Armed with wooden swords , cardboard breast plates , and now shields , we set off with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 6 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 7 | Next morning , after a leisurely start , we set off across bare rock beds from our base camp beneath the steep snow slopes of the Mera La . |
| 8 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |
| 9 | As soon as they set off on separate duties , they both visibly relaxed . |
| 10 | Eventually , after one false start , when Edward assumed ( wrongly ) that Helen would not come , they set off in late November '95 for a short walk to Wimbledon , followed four days later by a trip to Croydon . |
| 11 | and er they set off in hot pursuit . |
| 12 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 13 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |
| 14 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 15 | By the time he set off with Christian he had half formulated a plan to help with the future he had in mind for himself . |
| 16 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |
| 17 | The following Sunday at six in the morning the three of us set off from International Backside into the thick early morning mist . |