Example sentences of "[conj] he set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction .
2 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
3 But some doubted and one , Rol , who was a great war leader , mistrusted the feelings which prompted the Myrcans to wage war and was sickened by the killing , so he set off into the mountains to seek the Dwarves and avail himself of their ancient wisdom .
4 Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river .
5 His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers .
6 By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home .
7 All obstacles in the way of his return to England were now removed , and he set out in May .
8 But Denis 's hopes took flight with the break-up of the Soviet empire and he set off for Russia this summer .
9 Naturally I agreed , and he set off for paris immediately with Ted Church as the UK observer .
10 But the pressure in his bladder was growing , and he set off across the square in search of a public toilet .
11 The lock snapped into place behind him , and he set off down the hill towards his car .
12 They immediately phoned Allen , who has a car business at Lower Wield , and he set off in pursuit of the gang .
13 He needs this , particularly if he sets out to be a novelist .
14 He would have preferred to stay at Lyons , but he set out at once in mid-March , and arrived in Rome about the end of April 1098 .
15 Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket .
16 He had completed his articles with James Edmeston of Bishopsgate before he was twenty , and was involved in several large building projects including Hungerford Market and the Fishmongers Hall ( 1831–4 ) when he worked for Henry Roberts , before he set up on his own .
17 His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris .
18 Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it .
19 Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences .
20 The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today .
21 When he sets out from Rivendell Boromir blows his horn , the family heirloom , and is rebuked by Elrond for doing so ; but he takes no notice .
22 Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen .
23 The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 .
24 Two things mattered to Mr Major when he set off on the campaign road a month ago .
25 Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel .
26 When he set off towards the river the red bitch followed .
27 There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care .
28 And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side .
29 Known as ‘ Puffin' since childhood because of his hooked nose , he had worked with Baird on four previous films and had just finished making The Millionairess , starring Sophia Loren , when he set off for Sweden in October 1960 .
30 BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect .
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