Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the death of Haran , Terah sets out for Canaan , with his grandson Lot and his son Abram and childless daughter-in-law Sarai . |
| 2 | The deer wander from the 120-acre sanctuary which nature-loving Paul and Linda set up near Mr Gibb 's estate at Haddon End in Somerset . |
| 3 | At once , Richard set forth for Cyprus and after unsuccessful negotiations with Isaac , laid siege to Limassol . |
| 4 | Aware that it would be difficult and dangerous for the Hurricanes to attempt to land back aboard , Sabey set off towards Malta , hoping to meet one of the aircraft despatched from the island to lead in any lost aircraft , before their fuel ran out . |
| 5 | With British pop music once again in the ascendant , Richard Branson set off to America to sell Virgin artists , with an optimism that almost banished the memory of his company 's disastrous American adventure of two years before . |
| 6 | The Accademia Reale set up in Turin in 1677 , the Noble Cadet Corps established in Saint Petersburg in 1731 , the Ecole Royale Militaire which came into existence in Paris in 1751 , the military academies established at Wiener-Neustadt in 1752 and Zamora in 1790 , were all essentially intended to prepare young nobles for a military career . |
| 7 | When she had eaten , Ruth set off for Dudley House . |
| 8 | But it was precisely Gould 's unshakeable commonsense , which Havell had so reviled , that was beginning to antagonise the rival American camp , and it was with exasperation that they watched Gould set off for Europe on a reconnoitring trip for his second publication . |
| 9 | On 17 June Gould set off with Sturt across the Mount Lofty range towards the Murray River . |
| 10 | FORD Cortina nut Nigel Barnes set out on honeymoon yesterday — to CORTINA in Italy . |
| 11 | With this thought in mind , Loretta set off for Paddington . |
| 12 | Loaded with 1.7 tons of highly toxic plutonium , the Japanese freighter Akatsuki Maru set off from Cherbourg , France , on 7 November to return to Japan . |
| 13 | In July 1816 Sewell set off for Vienna , Berlin and Hanover . |
| 14 | The alternative approach of the evaluative typology that Barthes sets out in S/Z privileges the writing of the text , and sees it not as a structure or as a copy of a structure ( poetics ) , but as a practice . |
| 15 | A joint commission of representatives of Croatia , the RSK , the EC and UNPROFOR set up in June suspended its negotiations on Nov. 9 due to lack of progress over demilitarization and other issues . |
| 16 | Her conscience at peace , Julia set off for dinner in a mood to enjoy herself . |
| 17 | Later , in about the 1850's John Wilson set up at Burnside to manufacture rugs , weaving Scotch Carpets ( or Ingrain as they are also called ) on hand looms . |
| 18 | Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ . |
| 19 | So the following afternoon , as soon as Mrs Wormwood had departed in her car for another session of bingo , Matilda set out for Fred 's house to investigate . |
| 20 | Jelfs originally helped SCO to set up in Australia and has been poached by Univel to be its number one employee in the Asia/Pacific region , responsible for everywhere except Japan . |
| 21 | Roadblocks on the main routes to Warsaw set up by farmers belonging to the Self-Defence Union were cleared by riot police on July 9 . |
| 22 | Only six weeks after her confinement , the Mozarts set out for Salzburg to visit Leopold , a visit promised ever since their marriage but continually put off , much to Leopold 's annoyance . |
| 23 | In reprisal the Armstrongs set off in force and burned Netherby in Cumberland . |
| 24 | By 10 minutes to 12 everything was ready for the bazaar , so Amanda set out for home , tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear . |
| 25 | This was not quite ready when Mozart set off for Munich and so Mozart 's letters to his father , who acted as intermediary between him and the librettist , reveal a great deal of the process of writing . |
| 26 | They became engaged in England and next year Miss Brooke set out for New York chaperoned by her brother Edgar , a solicitor . |
| 27 | The major new documentary series of the year was Granada 's widely acclaimed ‘ Disappearing World ’ in which Brian Moser set off in search of native tribes in the remotest parts of the world . |
| 28 | Then , with a small group of his best experts , Gehlen set off for Bavaria to await the arrival of the Americans . |
| 29 | In the second week of August , filled by an idealistic vision of their future lives on the banks of the Susquehannah , Coleridge and Southey set out from Bristol on a walking tour into Somerset . |
| 30 | Watkins knew of the Chin tracks in India which follow the most direct line between villages regardless of gradient ; the straight camel tracks of Palestine , sighted on tree clumps on ridges , notched where the line went through ; and the skyline cairns of Egypt set up as landmarks for caravans . |