Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One dreads a future version in which Freud is set to work on the decision of Higgins and Pickering to set up together as two old bachelors .
2 The communications grant NEC set up there in 1970 , and its daily output of two or three tonnes of chips is jetted up to Tokyo every evening .
3 Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber .
4 TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway .
5 ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface …
6 In 1946 Howard Stenton Jones set up home with Margaret Burns in Stanstead Road , Brixton , along with Terry , Margaret 's son from her previous marriage .
7 Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us .
8 In the month of Sāun , Kalchu and Sigarup set out together across the mountains on a pilgrimage to Rānāmāche Lake .
9 Bonington set off alone for civilisation , reaching a village after descending the dangerous icefalls and cutting his way through the jungle for a day and a half .
10 Shaw set up Kerly for Newry 's opener in the eighth minute when the Canterbury star beat Brian Blythe with an angled shot after a superb off-the-ball run .
11 It was also pointed out that when Montupet set up close to West Belfast , Richard Needham claimed it would bring up to 1000 new jobs to West Belfast .
12 On the Somerset Levels , inundated by heavy floods in 1872 and 1873 , a report described how ‘ Ague set in early in the spring and is now very prevalent … among the poorer families who are badly fed and clothed . ’
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