Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 2 | SIXTH formers are perfecting their accents as they set off for work in the French town of Dunkirk . |
| 3 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
| 4 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 5 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 6 | As we pray this prayer we join with those generous young men as they set out on their missionary journeys . |
| 7 | Louise kept up a flow of bright chatter as they set off for Wigmore Street . |