Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police had blocked this way and the marchers set off along Duke Street , trying to find another way onto the bridge . |
| 2 | Upon leaving church we set off via Paynes Hill , Barnard 's Street , Trinity Street , Ivy Street and New Street to Crane Street . |
| 3 | We set off via Salt Lane and St. Edmund 's Church Street and , like all small boys , saw much of interest on the way . |
| 4 | On 20th September they set off to Pooley Bridge , referred to as ‘ Pawley ’ Bridge , drawing Brother 's Water and ‘ Ulles Water ’ on the way — ‘ slept at Mardale after drawing Ulles and Hawes . ’ |
| 5 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 6 | Louise kept up a flow of bright chatter as they set off for Wigmore Street . |
| 7 | Everyone knows that in fact you can get organised — so — leaving the family , animals and business I set off for Avery Hill College . |
| 8 | The group of officers , cadets and badgers set off from Broad Street pushing their bed with 16-year-old Glyn Matthews inside dressed in bonnet and nappy . |
| 9 | They set off from Turnu Severin , on the River Danube near the Yugoslav border and pedal through some of the highest passes almost to the Moldavian border , in what was formerly the USSR , and on to the Negreni villages . |
| 10 | Anti-Communism lay behind several setbacks to early Soviet initiatives in the area , notably the closure of the first trading office in Latin America , Iuzhamtorg ( set up in Buenos Aires in 1927 ) , by the military regime of General José Uriburu who came to power in a 1930 coup . |
| 11 | The threatening cloud of gloom that had been pea-sized when they 'd set out for Host Street grew to storm proportions . |
| 12 | The Tribunal can consider it as one of the facts along with those set out by Lord Justice May in the Palmer case as well as any which are relevant in the particular case . |
| 13 | The Committee 's principal conclusions set out by Stephen Levinson , Chairman of the Employment Law Committee 's Working Group on Disability , are : |
| 14 | That came about because one of the dancers had fallen ill just before they all set out from Cape Town . |
| 15 | We set out from Spean Bridge , where numerous coach parties enjoy real Highland hospitality in the Little Chef , before choosing from a rich selection of tartan travel rugs and heather-perfumed candles in the gift shop , and chugged our way up past Corriechoille farm . |
| 16 | First , it says , America should forgo its short-term fiscal stimulus ( Congress seems happy to oblige on this ) and then implement medium-term budget cuts twice as big as those set out in Bill Clinton 's February plan ( do n't hold your breath ) . |
| 17 | I WAS , and remain , an enthusiast for the proposals set out in John Smith 's alternative budget — as Kenneth Clarke said , incredulously , during a television broadcast , an intentional exercise in redistribution . |
| 18 | On the morning of the ceremony , Olivia , the mali , Balvinder Singh and myself all set off to Village Shahpur Jat in Mr Singh 's taxi . |
| 19 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 20 | The reconstruction retraced the couple 's movements from 7pm when they are thought to have set off from Mrs Arnold 's flat in Shernhall Road , Walthamstow , east London . |
| 21 | A meeting has been arranged for 30th September in the Village Hall when a neighbourhood watch will be set up for Belmont Road area . |
| 22 | A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry . |
| 23 | Dennis Heslop has arranged for the large ornate circular window to be set up at St. Paul 's church in West Witton near Bishop Auckland . |
| 24 | The 60ft high and 200ft long figure spelling out No Pylons will be set up at Beacon Hill , Kirby Sigston , near Borrowby in the Thirsk area . |
| 25 | Christian Hosoi , who was meant to be getting some sort of subsidiary company through Vision , is now working to get a sub-company set up through H Street : this will eventually be similar to Chris Miller 's Planet Earth . |
| 26 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 27 | Thus , to battle with the obstinate problem of unemployment , the President called for renewed spending on public works , and in 1935 a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) was set up under Harry Hopkins . |
| 28 | China appealed to the League of Nations for support against the Japanese occupation and in December 1931 a commission was set up under Lord Lytton to investigate the situation . |
| 29 | In that regard , does my hon. Friend agree that the commission that the Secretary of State has set up under Professor Alexander to look at the way in which primary school children are taught is particularly welcome ? |
| 30 | A number of blacks were given government appointments and a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity was set up under Vice-President Johnson . |