Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 2 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 3 | I set about trying to " find " them again . |
| 4 | In 1802 , already a minister for ten years , she set out to preach to ‘ Ethiopia 's children ’ living under ‘ base tyranny ’ in ‘ the large cities of America ’ . |
| 5 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 6 | But they could find no food so she set out to walk to Trnopolje , where she hoped she could feed her baby . |
| 7 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |