Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there .
2 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 .
3 She set off across the rough turf towards the low hill brow ahead .
4 Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ .
5 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 .
6 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 ?
7 He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded .
8 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
9 He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat .
10 In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island .
11 He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m .
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