Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set [adv] [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 | And so he sets off on foot , aiming nowhere . |
| 8 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 11 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 12 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 13 | Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot . |
| 14 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 15 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 16 | He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it . |
| 17 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then we set off by car to tape some face-to-face interviews with funeral directors . |
| 20 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 21 | Then they set off over the fields for the nearest village , two miles away . |
| 22 | Then they set off after the horses . |
| 23 | And then they set off from there into Kirkwall about What time ? |
| 24 | From there they set off to the landing ground which was Fraser 's target . |
| 25 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 26 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 27 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was only 28 when she set up on her own in 1976 , after starting her career as a researcher . |
| 30 | The last the family ever saw of Inez was when she set off in her little red Mini Sunday morning with twenty quid in her purse and her passport . ’ |