Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 9 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 10 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 11 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 12 | He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal . |
| 13 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 14 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 15 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 16 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 17 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 18 | He set off at a brisk walk . |
| 19 | He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled . |
| 20 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 21 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |