Example sentences of "i set [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 2 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 3 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 4 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 5 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 6 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 7 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 8 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 9 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
| 10 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 11 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |