Example sentences of "set [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were tears in the eyes … a mixture of pride and fear in the faces as the good ship Dodo 's Delight prepared to set sail for the rest of the world … |
| 2 | Later , when it grew dark , a fleet of ships would set sail for the ocean cemeteries , and the remembrance service would be held . |
| 3 | We enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and set sail on the return trip in time to be back in harbour before dark . |
| 4 | He glanced back at the house as if afraid that it might pull up an anchor and set sail across the lawn after them . |
| 5 | ‘ Then the twenty-five ships from Denmark sailed over to Siward 's ships and took aboard the men from the wrecked ships , and greeted the ones on the three ships that were not damaged , and , led by the three ships , set sail across the mouth of the estuary . |
| 6 | My first visit to ‘ the daughter of fire ’ was back in the summer of 1969 , when with two friends , Ian and Marie Brooker , we set sail from the port of Leith on the old mail steamer ‘ Gullfoss ’ , and after several days of not too comfortable travelling , we had our first glimpse of Iceland . |
| 7 | On Sunday morning , 16 September , they set sail in the packet-boat on a boisterous sea . |
| 8 | Two boys and a woman , who are n't even dhāmis , leap to their feet , possessed , their bodies spinning-tops set turning by the strength of the gods ' will to dance . |
| 9 | NVQs set to extend across the Group |
| 10 | Set to kick off the programme at MAC on Saturday 29 September is the British premiere of MASALA an irreverent tragi-comedy set amongst Toronto 's middle-class Asian community starring Saeed Jaffrey . |
| 11 | With the number of cars on our roads set to double by the year twenty-twenty-five , : our environment reporter Harriet Ryley considers whether we really NEED more roads . |
| 12 | All set to return to the fray ? |
| 13 | And that bleak , midwintry oulook is set to continue over the weekend , I 'm afraid . |
| 14 | Physical expansion is set to continue in the remainder of the current year with 20 trading outlets , representing 100,000 sq ft on top of the existing 694,500 , due to open . |
| 15 | And the momentum is set to continue after the day of protest with the publication of a trespass guide to the Thurlstone Moor area . |
| 16 | In September the Council warned that wheat stocks held by the five biggest exporters — Argentina , Australia , Canada , the European Commodities and the USA , were set to fall by the end of the 1989-90 season to levels not seen since the food crisis of the mid-1970's . |
| 17 | My single bronze maggot bait on a size 20 Kamasan B510 barbless hook is set to trip through the swim one inch off the bottom to stop it dragging in any rubbish . |
| 18 | A FAN-tastic collection of antiques is set to go under the hammer in Liverpool . |
| 19 | Now on top of her injuries her insurance is set to go through the roof |
| 20 | He was all set to go in the summer , and he ran away . |
| 21 | He was set to go in the autumn , but he did not run away from that one — he got the editors of five friendly newspapers to run away for him . |
| 22 | There was now a captive market for British films , and that market would expand steadily through the ten years the act was set to remain on the statute book . |
| 23 | Newton seems at that time to have accepted a variant of the ethereal vortices that Descartes had set rotating around the Sun to carry the Earth and the planets in orbital motion . |
| 24 | In spite of high interest rates , price inflation at the factory gate has varied from 4.8-5.2 per cent during the past seven months with little indication that it is set to slip below the range . |
| 25 | The prevalence rate of mental disorders — the proportion of the total population affected — is set to increase around the globe by the year 2000 . |
| 26 | The European Commission is set to rule on the dispute at the end of the month . |
| 27 | Our plans to spread employee ownership and participation will encourage wages to be set according to the profitability of individual firms rather than to some national ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 28 | The salary-ranges reflect the increased responsibilities involved in their managerial and policy-making functions and are in turn set according to the size of the local authority and its population base . |
| 29 | ‘ The valves are set according to the weather conditions , and the setting it was on was just enough to cause the tanker to leak slightly . |
| 30 | A base price is set according to the area . |