Example sentences of "set [adv] [adv] from the " in BNC.

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1 In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country .
2 Set furthest away from the road is the house .
3 There seem to be no discoverable rules about the shape of market places , why some take the form of a large open square — often set rather apart from the main flow of traffic — and some a swelling , a sort of aneurism , in the main artery of trade .
4 Jagatan 's yurt was set well away from the others of the clan .
5 Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them .
6 Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired .
7 Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed .
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