Example sentences of "he set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him .
2 I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train .
3 But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm .
4 With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op .
5 He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him .
6 Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences .
7 He sets off after the brothers , succeeds in imitating Haimet , and relieves Barat of his burden .
8 Waving his cheque book for $10 000 ( ready to Day to anyone who can produce convincing psychic phenomena ) he sets out on the exposure trail .
9 Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot .
10 He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again .
11 The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today .
12 Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property .
13 ‘ That this deal he set up with the Iranians through Nadirpur — part of the arrangement was that Philippe be released — in return for French arms . ’
14 He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 .
15 On his return to Britain , he set up as a portrait painter in both London and Edinburgh , purveying the Grand Manner to all buyers , but even then it was a restrained baroque , tempered by Ramsay 's own unmelodramatic personality .
16 The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 .
17 While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument .
18 After six months as a house surgeon at Essex County Hospital , Colchester , he set up as a country doctor in the New Forest , his amusing recollections of which appeared in St. Bartholomew 's Hospital Journal ( 1933–5 ) .
19 He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 .
20 ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family .
21 Nick Hern has exchanged contracts with Random House for the acquisition of Nick Hern Books , the theatre list he set up as a part of Walker Books in 1988 which joined Random House in 1990 .
22 He set up in the West End of London in 1912 , following the death of his first wife and only daughter , having realized that property deals yielded far better returns in the metropolis than in the provinces .
23 And at last he set out for the meeting-place .
24 He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded .
25 But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC .
26 Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him .
27 As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition .
28 Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression .
29 He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal .
30 In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks .
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