Example sentences of "he set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm . |
| 2 | With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 5 | He sets off after the brothers , succeeds in imitating Haimet , and relieves Barat of his burden . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 22 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 29 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 30 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |