Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a second teatime breakfast in a café , I set off without delay for Kenny 's Bookshop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Watch out ! ’ you yelled as I set off on holiday . |
| 4 | ‘ On March 19 and I set off for Birmingham and a hotel close to the airport . |
| 5 | After dropping Martin and Lucy off at Vidlin , I set off for home . |
| 6 | Everyone knows that in fact you can get organised — so — leaving the family , animals and business I set off for Avery Hill College . |
| 7 | I set off for Duxford cursing . |
| 8 | With the drinks set out and the food at the ready , I set off with Caroline , who had arrived from Denmark the night before . |
| 9 | Val and I set off with intentions to watch the jumps , but the Skippers road to the bridge is specifically excluded from motor insurance policies and when we saw it , we understood why ; it 's a dirt track along a precipice . |
| 10 | The farmer 's wife has kindly pressed my kilt and I set off into town with a small group of Commandos , all of us determined to enjoy ourselves , and , of course , to sort out the local French girls . |
| 11 | So , this morning I set off down Lennox Gardens , the Street with No Name , and then into Rumsey Road . |
| 12 | I set off in pursuit . |
| 13 | Fiona and I set off from Fulham in our car at about 9 a.m . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 16 | After a shop at Sainsburys in Camden Town and a quick cold meat and salad lunch I set off by Tube to Finsbury Circus to one of the big offices of BP for a Management and Membership Committee meeting of the British Association of Industrial Editors . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 19 | On 9 November 1984 I set out for consultation a list of branded drugs which would no longer be prescribed under the health service . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I still have a note of the objectives for the review I set out at Wilton Park : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fact that Ian and I arrived first gives us priority , and it was extremely foolish of you to set up in opposition . |
| 24 | Each form that you set up within Dataease is a database file . |
| 25 | This section describes how to tell the LIFESPAN Process about the storage directory you set up in Section 2.3 , LIFESPAN Storage Directories . |
| 26 | To reach this desolate spot you set off at sun-up and head toward mountain ranges which scarcely ever get closer . |
| 27 | Early bird Ruth arrives on her bike and pitches in with the adult workers at her grandfather 's stables every morning before she sets off for school Pictures : STUART FOSTER |
| 28 | ‘ There 's no doubt about her getting the distance , but in this top grade it 's essential she sets off in front . ‘ |
| 29 | Combining the public relations exercise of showing herself to her people with the need to exhibit her legal powers , she set off on court circuits or justice eyres which inevitably had to include the crime-ridden Borders . |
| 30 | So , excited , and wondering what surprise her brother could conceivably have arranged , she set off with Sam in the britzka for Trouville . |