Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ( Gen. 12.1 ) So Abram set out on a journey where faith rather than sight would be the guiding light , seeking a home , a city , a country . |
2 | West Indies soon lost Haynes , but Richards , on his home ground , and Greenidge set off at an explosive pace with 45 off the first seven overs . |
3 | An opportunity for escape occurred shortly afterwards when she and Wordsworth set off on a walking tour into the Wye Valley . |
4 | In practice , Oxfordshire , Somerset , Leicestershire and Coventry set out on an ambitious exercise simultaneously with the development of the Northern Record of Achievement and the London Record of Achievement . |
5 | Fleischmann and Pons set out on a different course initially , but one that had already been charted in Europe in the 1920s and 30s . |
6 | After watching the train steam away with Christian waving from an open carriage window until he was out of sight , Carrie and Seb set off on the return journey in the gig . |
7 | On the contrary , all seemed set fair , and when they had loaded the packing-cases on to the cart Matey and McAllister set off for the church hall , to lay out the stall , to have everything ready for the afternoon 's visitors , Dr Neil having promised to come along to help them . |
8 | Chola and Mina set out for the fields to continue the millet harvest , and Kalchu fetched the flat wooden spade and began beating down the mud to repair the leaking roof . |
9 | Soon afterwards Chola and Mina set out for the hills to gather grass . |
10 | Following two days ' rest Venables and Renshaw set off for a final attempt taking a more direct line , avoiding sections of 70 degree snow and ice by passages of rock and mixed climbing . |
11 | We put our litter back into our rucksacks as all the bins were full to overflowing , and Elinor and Otley set off in the direction of Fair Hill where all the caravans were resting . |
12 | Such a move is only a matter of time , but the time-scale will vary considerably from authority to authority depending on the phasing-in of their delegation schemes and the speed at which they restructure the various service departments to meet the new role which has to be created within the strategy and time-scale set down by the legislation . |
13 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |
14 | Goodnights were exchanged and George set off down the lane with Elizabeth , Sarah and their mother . |
15 | " Be careful , " said Buckthorn , as Hazel and Blackberry set off down the slope . |
16 | In the title role , Anne Dawson remained passive until error and madness set in near the end ; then she sang with increased energy , and spun her lines with great beauty . |
17 | The piano and violin set off with the air of those ready to bask in the music 's warmth , and it seemed that , for once , this awkward , unbalanced work — for it is unsatisfactory , not just in its instrumentation , but in its musical make-up — might be entirely convincing . |
18 | While Pavel set out for the next town on his list . |
19 | The sky was cloudy when Giles set off after an early breakfast . |
20 | could be the two of them they just , when er , when Lee set out on a Saturday evening with er Kevin and they often sit there and er have a , er a bit of a snack , supper , light supper and er |
21 | The original concept , as Miller set out in the preface , was ‘ to exhibit the figures of one or more species of all the known genera of plants ’ . |