Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the Habsburg territories Joseph I set up in 1709 a new permanent committee of nine officials to control foreign affairs . |
| 2 | Armed with buckets , nets and battery airpumps , I set off with two willing helpers aged nine and eleven to the seaside . |
| 3 | I set off at 5 am but those Sussex lanes are pitch dark , and hilly ! |
| 4 | In 1978 she moved into editing and after editing professional magazines and papers in the mining and mineral field she set up in 1989 her own business Editorial Services and now works freelance from home . |
| 5 | We set out before 7 a.m. , but Jean-Claude did not tell me how far away the château stood , or how long it would take to reach the boundary of the domain . |
| 6 | We set off at ten , collected Coconut and bowled along to the woods . |
| 7 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 8 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 9 | They set out on 8 April , stopping first at Prague . |
| 10 | They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way . |
| 11 | They set off on 17 January , carried by Captain Hunter 's LRDG patrol and navigated once again by Mike Sadler . |
| 12 | Right hand gear change , non-synchromesh gearbox and in a very odd posture for driving , they set off for 5 laps in these amazing cars . |
| 13 | Now erm suddenly , it sets in at one particular temperature , this resistance just disappears entirely . |
| 14 | He sets out with three members of the Club , Tupman , Snodgrass , and Winkle , to observe the world and record their adventures . |
| 15 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 16 | Welsh- Pearson , the company he set up in 1915 , remained small , making only three or four films a year , thus resisting the pressures for mass production that prevailed at the larger studios . |
| 17 | He set out at ten ; he viewed as many houses as possible , trudged across miles of fitted carpet and sanded floors , exchanged weary smiles with anxious vendors . |
| 18 | Faldo savages the press for his treatment at Muirfield , where he set out as one of the hottest favourites in Open history . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He set off on 15 November on the first leg of a two month expedition thumbing his way across France , Algeria and Niger . |