Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 62 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 63 | He is in London with Jacob , his wife Judy and daughter Julia , 10 , and before they set off for the Odeon , Leicester Square , last night , he said : ‘ None of us would be here today without Jake 's idea . ’ |
| 64 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
| 65 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 66 | The huge ammunition wagons set off for the crossroads , their massive iron-rimmed wheels digging great gouges into the road 's surface . |
| 67 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 68 | Side by side , a matching pair , both in their best clothes , they set off for the police station on Royal Hill . |
| 69 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 70 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 71 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 72 | Soon after breakfast we set off into the jungle . |
| 73 | I had acquired and learned to drive an old Hillman during the summer and , piling two tired and travel-sick children into the back with our parcels , we set off into the night . |
| 74 | Seismic stratigraphy is a technique whereby seismic waves generated by.small explosions set off at the surface are reflected or refracted from discontinuities in the underlying sediments which represent changes in sediment properties . |
| 75 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 76 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 77 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 78 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 79 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 80 | It happened shortly after 500 athletes set off on the Rowntree Athletic Club 's 10-mile road race at the weekend . |
| 81 | Taking his towelling bath robe out of his suitcase and one of the rugs from the back of the car , they set off towards the cliff . |
| 82 | After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare . |
| 83 | Then they set off after the horses . |
| 84 | About 2,000 paramilitary policemen , 600 Bushmen auxiliaries and several helicopter gunships set off after the SWAPO men . |
| 85 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 86 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 87 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 88 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
| 89 | We all set off in the car to see a lawyer . |
| 90 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |