Example sentences of "set [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With interest rates set to fall in the medium term this must augur well for values . |
| 2 | By the time we are all set to go to a club I am teetering on the brink . |
| 3 | Electricity users set to benefit from leap in profit |
| 4 | They may , therefore , only be marginally concerned with the effect that the examination they set has on teaching and learning in primary schools . |
| 5 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 6 | New shops set to open in Scarborough 's £30m Brunswick Pavilion shopping mall by Mothercare , Microbite Computers and outfitters Maze , will take the number of new jobs created in the centre to more than 200 . |
| 7 | Furious , Richard hired thirty ships from the Marseilles merchants and set sail for Genoa , where Philip had arrived before him and promptly fallen ill . |
| 8 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 9 | And yesterday , after a week-long stay , 73 vessels , ranging from the massive Russian four-master the Sedov to the Boa Esperanca , a replica of Columbus 's boat , set sail for home . |
| 10 | Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights . |
| 11 | He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark . |
| 12 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
| 13 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 14 | The fisherman cut their lines and set sail for port , but the sea serpent continued to follow them . |
| 15 | In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity . |
| 16 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |
| 17 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |
| 18 | On 5th June , Richard finally set sail on the final leg of his long journey , reaching Tyre next day . |
| 19 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 20 | The Dunera , an 11,000 ton former troopship , bound for Australia , set sail on 10 July . |
| 21 | So she gazed and her finger traced the outlines of nymphs — thinner , higher cheek-boned than she could ever hope to be , garlanded with flowers , stepping barefoot through the forest ; and sometimes she saw an exhausted Venus , a hand below her belly , lying in a countryside where oxen were driven and ships set sail on uncharted seas . |
| 22 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 23 | ‘ Then the twenty-five ships from Denmark sailed over to Siward 's ships and took aboard the men from the wrecked ships , and greeted the ones on the three ships that were not damaged , and , led by the three ships , set sail across the mouth of the estuary . |
| 24 | On 5 July they set sail with a fair wind , but the adventure ended almost before it had begun for , 120 miles [ 192 km ] off the coast of Brittany , the little taskforce was challenged by the 60-gun Lion . |
| 25 | At the end of the month , the Arandora Star , once advertised as ‘ the world 's most delightful cruising liner ’ , set sail with nearly 1200 internees and 200 British troops to guard them . |
| 26 | From there we set sail with sixteen fierce Bugis tribesmen on a 2,500-mile voyage through the Spice Islands in search of the Greater Bird of Paradise . |
| 27 | SUNDAY : Set sail from Corfu to the beautiful bay of Syvota . |
| 28 | It was from Holkham that the first Devons were commercially exported to the USA , though in fact the Pilgrim Fathers , who set sail from Plymouth , took some Devons with them in the seventeenth century . |
| 29 | They set sail from the Guadalquivir River under the proud corporate title of the Armada de Molucca , amply armed but hopelessly provisioned , with crews composed of men of nine different nationalities and of innumerable and in many cases mutually antagonistic temperaments . |
| 30 | My first visit to ‘ the daughter of fire ’ was back in the summer of 1969 , when with two friends , Ian and Marie Brooker , we set sail from the port of Leith on the old mail steamer ‘ Gullfoss ’ , and after several days of not too comfortable travelling , we had our first glimpse of Iceland . |