Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set off to Khan Market to buy something for my headache , only to find the roads were clogged with white Ambassadors dressed up as Christmas trees . |
| 2 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
| 3 | Everyone knows that in fact you can get organised — so — leaving the family , animals and business I set off for Avery Hill College . |
| 4 | I set off for Duxford cursing . |
| 5 | With the drinks set out and the food at the ready , I set off with Caroline , who had arrived from Denmark the night before . |
| 6 | So , this morning I set off down Lennox Gardens , the Street with No Name , and then into Rumsey Road . |
| 7 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
| 8 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 9 | The day after I got back from Moscow , I set out for Philadelphia , where I was due to receive a medal from the Franklin Institute . |
| 10 | The first evening we left the children with some of the helpers and my husband , David , and I set out to Mass at the convent . |
| 11 | I still have a note of the objectives for the review I set out at Wilton Park : |
| 12 | I set out in May 1985 to write a feature for the Financial Times about this man apparently rich enough with his two brothers to pay £615m in cash for the House of Fraser . |
| 13 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 14 | Peter Kessler , spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , said it was hoped the ten-truck convoy which set out from Belgrade on Sunday could now proceed to the village of Cerska , where some 25,000 Muslims are trapped . |
| 15 | A UN convoy which set off for Srebrenica yesterday was turned back by Serbian police backed up by an armoured car . |
| 16 | The balloons , which set off from Maine on the US East Coast , were moving last night towards Newfoundland . |
| 17 | Each form that you set up within Dataease is a database file . |
| 18 | So , excited , and wondering what surprise her brother could conceivably have arranged , she set off with Sam in the britzka for Trouville . |
| 19 | For about six weeks before she set off for France , the long way via Cape Town , they made love feverishly . |
| 20 | She set off for Monte Samana alone . |
| 21 | ‘ She said , ‘ This is what love is for — I 'm coming over , ’ and she set off for Rocamar and arrived at breakfast next day . ’ |
| 22 | With panic inside her she set off in Will 's footsteps towards the town , sobbing . |
| 23 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 24 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 25 | We set out from Spean Bridge , where numerous coach parties enjoy real Highland hospitality in the Little Chef , before choosing from a rich selection of tartan travel rugs and heather-perfumed candles in the gift shop , and chugged our way up past Corriechoille farm . |
| 26 | At 10:16 we boarded the Sprinter on platform one.Then we set off for Shrewsbury : |
| 27 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 28 | The following morning we set off for Verona . |
| 29 | and eventually hauled me aboard as we set off for Blackpool . |
| 30 | And so we set off towards Tughlukabad , Balvinder doing his best to prove his point . |