Example sentences of "set [adv prt] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 2 | Without thinking , he scrambled out of the cellar and set off after Ho . |
| 3 | The young woman shook her head , as if in disbelief , and set off after him . |
| 4 | She stood up , instructed her legs to stop feeling like jelly , and set off after the machine . |
| 5 | He set off after arranging with the girls that Terry would be sent off to meet them , alone , and Frank prevented from accompanying him . |
| 6 | Eventually flogged into submission by the jockey , Bumboy set off after its vanishing playmates . |
| 7 | The sky was cloudy when Giles set off after an early breakfast . |
| 8 | Doogie raised his eyebrows , then his shoulders and then the corners of his mouth , and set off after her . |
| 9 | For example , Haringey has still not taken its place within the Community Consultative Group set up after Lord Scarman 's report on the disorders of 1981 . |
| 10 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 11 | The Rules Sub-Committee , set up after the Extraordinary General Meeting in 1983 , and comprising Basil Peacock , Jim McDonald ( Captain ) , Alec Stevens and ‘ the Club 's solicitor as needs be ’ , produced two draft sets of rules , the crucial difference between them being the definition of ‘ member with full voting rights ’ , i.e. seven-day male only ? or all other categories ? ( e.g. social , ladies and five-day ) . |
| 12 | Breakthrough are a new charity set up after the death of Daily Express woman 's editor Jean Rook to provide funds for research into breast cancer in women . |
| 13 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 14 | The 200-page report of the Warner Inquiry , set up after Beck 's conviction , is expected to prompt an immediate clampdown on the present recruitment procedure used for care workers in children 's homes . |
| 15 | FUTURE provision of after school care in the Braintree district is being considered by a steering group , set up after a seminar last November . |
| 16 | The initiative , set up after a meeting between sub divisional commanders , will end with results being compared with the same two months last year . |
| 17 | No general election was fought by the organization set up after 1911 , but there is little doubt that there was a massive improvement ; criticisms that were commonplace in 1910 were not to be heard by 1913 . |
| 18 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | In the same speech to Parliament de Klerk criticized the ANC for delaying disclosure of its reaction to the report of the working party set up after the government-ANC talks at Cape Town in May [ see pp. 37440-41 ] , which attempted among other things to define a political prisoner . |
| 20 | According to the New York Times of June 29 , a softening of the US government 's previous stance against recognition of the regime set up after the September 1991 military coup in Haiti [ see pp. 38430 ; 38522-23 ] was detectable after Marc Bazin was sworn into office as Prime Minister on June 19 . |
| 21 | The claim is to be presented to the UN Compensation Commission , but the commission " set up after the war to co-ordinate claims against Iraq " has few funds at its disposal . |
| 22 | To this end we will be working closely with Music Aid , a group of volunteers from the music world who set up after the tragic Ethiopian famine in the mid nineteen eighties . |
| 23 | The UDA/UFF is now well-armed , say security sources , with weapons coming from the shadowy Ulster Resistance set up after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 . |
| 24 | That emerged yesterday during a visit to Shetland by Lord Donaldson , who is heading the inquiry into shipping safety set up after the disaster . |
| 25 | Union officials held an hour-long meeting with Mr Clarke at the Home Office , urging him to retain the pay formula set up after the bitter nine-week strike in 1977/78 . |
| 26 | Letting herself out inconspicuously by way of the backstairs , Joan set out after dark for the Garden Tower , taking a circuitous route to avoid arousing suspicion . |
| 27 | A Coast Guard cutter set out after the launch at 3 p.m. 10 |
| 28 | He and the Reverend McQueen set out after breakfast to find the ruins of what McQueen believed had been an ancient pagan temple to the goddess Anaitis . |
| 29 | A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver . |