Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 2 | A MODERN SPLIT-LEVEL MAISONETTE IN A SMALL DEVELOPMENT SET IN WELL MAINTAINED COMMUNAL GROUNDS |
| 3 | McEnroe began with two stunning aces , then broke Kulti 's first two service games with disdain to take the opening set in just 28 minutes . |
| 4 | Between Burgh-le-Marsh and the wolds is one of the area 's most lovely country houses , set in outstandingly beautiful gardens . |
| 5 | Art gallery and licensed restaurant set in lovingly restored farm buildings of the early 1800s . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | The mixture consisted of a dialysed solution of FeCl 3 ( parchment or animal gut could be used for this ) resulting in a solution of FeO(OH) to which NaCl was added — this mixture gave a thixotropic sol that set in about an hour and closely resembled the brown-coloured holy relic in Naples . |
| 8 | It is completely restored , set in about ten acres of land , rather isolated but with fine views . |
| 9 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 10 | In the 1970s ‘ stagflation ’ set in apace , as external forces such as the 1973 oil-price explosion was accompanied by intense inflationary pressures at home , many of them associated with the rise of trade-union power . |
| 11 | The sun was setting as the rector set off homeward . |
| 12 | Mary set off cheerfully . |
| 13 | He set off cheerfully for a final phase in Worcestershire , saying complacently , ‘ I do n't want any bands here when I come back . ’ |
| 14 | He got out of his car and locked it and set off ahead of me . |
| 15 | We finished serving lunch and coffee and cleared up , and as soon as I decently could I left the kitchen and set off forward up the train . |
| 16 | Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us . |
| 17 | So they set off anyway and just in no time at all they were coming into the shore below Greentoft . |
| 18 | Joseph lunged toward it , but the sight of him terrorized the gibbon further , and it set off frantically towards the only visible refuge . |
| 19 | After a heroic action , the Franco-Irish captain of the Prince Charles reluctantly gave the order to abandon ship and set off bravely to lead the survivors across country , carrying their precious cargo , to Inverness , 70 miles [ 113 km ] away . |
| 20 | Accordingly Baldwin packed his suitcase , instructed his parliamentary private secretary to do the same , and set off yet once more in the small black car . |
| 21 | With things being tight at work it was necessary to set an example , he explained to Joan , as she set off yet again for the launderette . |
| 22 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 23 | FORMER Beirut hostage Brian Keenan and his beautiful blonde wife , Audrey Doyle , set off today for a secret honeymoon destination . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 … |
| 25 | Vite ! " he yelled , clapping his hands , and the coolie set off instantly at a frantic gallop along the boulevard . |
| 26 | Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed . |
| 27 | And both Bramble and Quince were relieved when their respective charges had finished lunch and set off again on their quest . |
| 28 | ‘ If you think this is rough , wait till you see the foundry , ’ said Wilcox , with a grim smile , and set off again at his brisk terrier 's trot . |
| 29 | In 1867 he set off again , this time for Vietnam , and from there to Hong Kong . |
| 30 | Feeling rather uncomfortably damp and dirty , she set off again , turning off presently into a deep wood , through which a footpath led to the deer-park and then on to Granny Fordham 's cottage . |