Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The premature declarations of imminent victory and raising of empty hopes contained the germ of the inevitable decline in confidence which set in during the following weeks , as the news from the eastern Front told a different story . |
| 2 | Sandison himself set off in the opposite direction , towards his pensione . |
| 3 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 4 | With no further words , she set off across the wide lawns of the De Belving gardens , scattering a couple of sleepy peacocks as she went . |
| 5 | She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead . |
| 6 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 7 | Every male from the neighbouring estancias , except Luke , who was off moving the cattle , seemed to be gathered round the paddock to watch her as she set off in the milky , misty morning light towards a row of poplar trees . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was a beautiful sunny day , if anything it would be too hot for the marathon runners who set off before the fun runners , fun walkers and fun pusher ! |
| 10 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 11 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 12 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 13 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 14 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 15 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 16 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |
| 17 | The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them . |
| 18 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |