Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | So one set out with a policy of having good human relations and my friendship with Marcus Sieff ( now president of Marks $ Spencer ) dating back to 1953 has also had an influence . |
2 | 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 ? |
3 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
6 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |