Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set off back to the hospital — not in the best of tempers after a foul drive in filthy weather — and it was on the way home , as the wet lamps marched towards me , that it happened . |
| 2 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 3 | It was a cold , bright morning when we set out cheerfully down the river . |
| 4 | We set off again along the gravel paths . |
| 5 | Tony finished his work and we set off back towards the sea . |
| 6 | We tried to calm her as we set off back to the hospital . |
| 7 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 8 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 9 | ‘ There 'll be scent enough today , ’ she said as they set off again for the meet . |
| 10 | They set off again at a stately pace . |
| 11 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 12 | He closed the gate and they set off back down the dirt track towards the cottage . |