Example sentences of "men set [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 In the Old City men set up small roadside stalls around big red earthenware pots containing jal jeera , a dark , spicy , green liquid which burns the mouth but cools the body : a more primitive yet more effective coolant than anything on offer in the new town .
2 As Kalchu and I and some of the other men set out for home , they started to gather it up and hack off the dead branches that jut out from pine-trunks like thin stumps of arms .
3 On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna .
4 Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town .
5 The men set off in fear and trepidation , singing and whistling to bolster their courage .
6 The three men set off again in the Sunbeam , touring the stores of Ruislip and Eastcote , making purchases with their newly acquired Barclaycard .
7 The two men set off down a narrow path which traversed the slope diagonally .
8 But there was no fairy-tale ending as Bob Dwyer 's men set about party-pooping in serious fashion when the experienced half-back combination of Nick Farr-Jones and Michael Lynagh began to click , each scoring a try .
9 The Sheriff , Mr. Truelock , was called and with two of the men set about the work of destruction .
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