Example sentences of "set [adv prt] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set off at half past five in Charlotte 's car . |
| 2 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 3 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
| 4 | Physical decay is setting in at 38 for Duran and 33 for Leonard , yet in the most hazardous of sports they persist , in the fashion of the times , in trying to defy the ageing process . |
| 5 | These time-fused torpedoes fired , Micky Wynn set off at 0230 for the sea down river , while Commander Ryder moved into midstream to check the position , coming between the wrecks — five MLs were now blazing hulks — to within 250 yards ( 230m ) of the Mole 's batteries as Able Seaman Savage and his mate , AB F.A . |