Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hit the roof when the pair left to set up home in a bedsit . |
| 2 | A bird which was once a common sight along Britains riverbanks has been tempted to set up home in a sanctuary . |
| 3 | They set off again at a stately pace . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm surprised you did n't set up somewhere in a city , ’ she went on , tearing her glance from his face . |
| 5 | Did they set up again under a different name ? |
| 6 | Why not just leave — set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew ? |
| 7 | Instead , the siege mentality towards the accompanying press party , that has wrecked morale on previous tours , notably the 1986 trip to the West Indies , has set in again with a vengeance . |
| 8 | The Welshman had set off home in a cold fury . |
| 9 | A semantic relation may be set up either within a sentence or between sentences with the consequence that , when it crosses a sentence boundary , it has the effect of making the two sentences cohere with one another ( Halliday and Hasan 1976 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's set up there like a part of the Rameses II exhibition , ’ came the answer . |
| 11 | Mr Matthew Kelly , Mr Jeremy Beadle 's erstwhile co-presenter on the televisual feast Game For A Laugh , has apparently ‘ set up home with a drag queen ’ named ‘ Dave ’ . |
| 12 | One such group is the Haitian Information Bureau , which was set up recently as a news and information service designed to provide an accurate picture of the current situation in Haiti . |
| 13 | The process was set out clearly in a letter from Pope Gregory to Bishop Mellitus in CE601 : |
| 14 | Firstly , it is alleged that there was a failure to advise the plaintiff er before the contracts for this business were exchanged , as to the necessity for ensuring that there was adequate finance to er complete the purchase granted on terms that the plaintiff could meet and which were set out clearly in a letter of offer from the bank and there was a failure to advise the plaintiffs as to the risk of relying upon oral offers of financing from the bank . |
| 15 | The nature of the political horse-trading ahead if the region is to gain a status potentially worth many millions of pounds is set out clearly in a paper to be considered by a meeting of the commission today . |
| 16 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 17 | Although formally set out only at a later date ( c.1372 ) , they came to include the rights to create notaries , to legitimize bastards , to grant letters conferring the status of bourgeoisie and nobility , to issue pardons and remissions , to license fairs and markets , to permit suitors to be represented at law by proctors , and to legislate for the common weal of the kingdom . |
| 18 | The doctrines and policy of Sir Kenneth Newman were set out candidly in an unpublished , private lecture to the European Atlantic Group in 1983 , entitled Public Order in Free Societies . |
| 19 | But was n't it a risk setting up alone at a time when you would n't be able to work continuously ? |
| 20 | He set off cheerfully for a final phase in Worcestershire , saying complacently , ‘ I do n't want any bands here when I come back . ’ |
| 21 | FORMER Beirut hostage Brian Keenan and his beautiful blonde wife , Audrey Doyle , set off today for a secret honeymoon destination . |
| 22 | Vite ! " he yelled , clapping his hands , and the coolie set off instantly at a frantic gallop along the boulevard . |
| 23 | The ‘ speeder set off again with a renewed sense of purpose . |
| 24 | Lord Hesketh , the chief whip in the Lords , also went for flower power in the form of a pink carnation set off nicely by a red bow tie and cream shirt . |
| 25 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 26 | TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway . |
| 27 | He could easily be presented as a modest example of Samuel Smiles 's self-help — the illegitimate son of a farm-servant and a weaver , totally lacking in formal education , who advanced from Oldham textile-worker to foreman in an engineering works , until in 1861 he set up independently as a dentist , dying worth almost £15,000 , which was by no means negligible : a lifelong radical Liberal and temperance advocate . |
| 28 | A song thrush opted for a life on the road when it set up home on a pick-up truck at Harwell , see below . |
| 29 | As a result of these problems , it is our preferred policy to use the specimen letter set out below as an alternative to confidentiality letters generated by clients ' Solicitors . |
| 30 | As a result of these problems , it is our preferred policy to use the specimen letter set out below as an alternative to confidentiality letters generated by clients ' Solicitors . |