Example sentences of "set [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , despondency soon set in early yesterday morning with the losses of the seats won in by-elections — Eastbourne , Ribble Valley and Kincardine and Deeside . |
| 2 | However , despondency soon set in early yesterday morning with the losses of the seats won in by-elections — Eastbourne , Ribble Valley , and Kincardine and Deeside . |
| 3 | She gave him the bacon and eggs and he set to ravenously . |
| 4 | He set to again , putting the facts as plainly as he could , though doubted that these words would save Estabrook 's life . |
| 5 | While the girls paraded upstairs , giggling at the glimmer of flesh they showed each other , Madeleine set to again . |
| 6 | Instead , she set to stubbornly work her way through in alphabetical order , so that before long she had a small pile of pink order slips in front of her . |
| 7 | With goals that are complex , conflicting , vague and set at least partially by external agencies , the planning process is much more of a political act than in private corporations ( e.g. Grieve Smith 1981 ; Smith Ring and Perry 1985 ) . |