Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I explained about the shop ; I thought he might give me a loan to set up in business again … . |
| 2 | When the two women set off to Berlin together in search of Roswitha 's past , the film becomes an exploration of the power of affection to transcend boundaries of age , background and sexual orientation . |
| 3 | HOUNSLOW will be defending an unbeaten record in the European Cup-Winners ' Cup when they set off for Holland today to compete in this season 's final stages . |
| 4 | A UN convoy which set off for Srebrenica yesterday was turned back by Serbian police backed up by an armoured car . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd prefer to not risk my efforts at the barbecue I can easily set off for home right now . |
| 6 | She will then set off for Shetland again at 2 am , arriving at 2pm . |
| 7 | Anyway , when Alan suggested that he should set up in practice here it seemed a splendid idea . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Joanna will have her work cut out to convince him that she 's the equal of any man when they set up in practice together . ’ |
| 9 | [ to BELVILLE ] Honoured sir , your last proposal to me convinces me I ought not to stay , so , with a thousand thanks for all favours , I will set out for home tomorrow early . |
| 10 | The interior of the Americas , beyond the great mountains east of Lima , was still a mystery , but a mystery that brave men were challenging : with immense courage and endurance they set out on travels both dangerous and dazzling . |
| 11 | The Seasiders set out for Cyprus today needing a win or a higher scoring draw than 1-1 in Wednesday 's return game to secure a lucrative first round tie with Paris St Germain . |
| 12 | Two anglers from London arrived at the draw but immediately set off for home again fearful of travelling conditions . |
| 13 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 14 | In this sale of French furniture eighteenth and nineteenth-century work is set off by pieces especially created by François Linke for the 1900 International Exhibition in Paris . |
| 15 | Mind you , we 'll still make sets with the old gauge low Bs in them , because some players do n't want to make the shift and some basses just are n't set up for strings that big . ’ |
| 16 | Oh we 're set up for Christmas now ! |
| 17 | Such bodies are set up outside government partly so that they can attract skilled personnel who might not be prepared to work for the core of government ; so that they can develop a high level of expertise in the area they are responsible for ; and so that they can develop policy in an atmosphere divorced from direct party political pressures . |
| 18 | If you are properly set up under Windows then you should have the ANSI.SYS driver in your CONFIG.SYS file , if not then it may well be worth installing it unless you are driving an HP LaserJet in which case you 'll be using the Roman-8 character set ; the Roman-8 codes are 247 , 248 and 245 respectively . |
| 19 | August 1986 , Labour councillor Pandura Perera cites SMG as example of political cell set up by GLC ostensibly as community group … |
| 20 | A second bakery is being set up in offices once owned by a stationary manufacturer . |
| 21 | I mean , I do n't think Mary and Joseph would have set out for Bethlehem yet . |
| 22 | For comparison the accounting policies proposed by the MAS / purchaser 's accountants for the same companies following the due diligence exercise are set out in B below . |
| 23 | The changes are set out in detail overleaf but the main points are : |
| 24 | North East Club for pre-war Austins Mad March Hare run sets off from Scotch 11am . |
| 25 | ‘ There is no sense of crisis , of panic setting in among businesses yet , but if interest rates go up again it could be very detrimental , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Thus , firms can reward their staff by setting up bonus schemes related to the firm 's profits or otherwise relating pay to performance ; and ( 2 ) just as the partners will wish to impose restraint covenants upon themselves ( see Chapter 8 ) to prevent an outgoing partner damaging the continuing practice by setting up in competition thereto , so in the case of salaried partners , assistant solicitors and other key members of staff their terms of employment should include similar restrictionssimilar , but not necessarily identical . |
| 27 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 28 | If you are setting out for Shrewsbury tomorrow , so must Saint Winifred . |
| 29 | Setting out for France again two years later , the king was described by the anonymous author of the Brut as leaving England with ‘ ordynaunce gadred and welle stuffyd , as longyd to such a ryalle Kinge ’ . |
| 30 | Naturally I agreed , and he set off for paris immediately with Ted Church as the UK observer . |