Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen . |
| 2 | When he sets out from Rivendell Boromir blows his horn , the family heirloom , and is rebuked by Elrond for doing so ; but he takes no notice . |
| 3 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
| 4 | His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris . |
| 5 | Once when Denis Wirth-Miller was staying at Allen Street he set out for Soho in a cab with Minton who had four sailors in tow . |
| 6 | In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles . |
| 7 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 8 | He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne . |
| 9 | All obstacles in the way of his return to England were now removed , and he set out in May . |
| 10 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 11 | On a day which was among the more remarkable in literary history , he set out from Lime Street , and as on so many previous occasions reached Alfoxden down the lonely tree-shuttered lane through the deer park . |
| 12 | With supporters opposed to the Douglas braggarts he set off towards Tantallon castle , where Angus had precipitately fled on learning that the king was loose and in vengeful mood . |
| 13 | So saying he set off with Rob and Tess at his heels to head for the high moor . |
| 14 | He set off for Spain in August 1965 to film A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum with director Richard Lester . |
| 15 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 16 | Frustrated , he set off for London . |
| 17 | When they set off for church he set off for London , driving fast . |
| 18 | But Denis 's hopes took flight with the break-up of the Soviet empire and he set off for Russia this summer . |
| 19 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 20 | When he had had his lunch , which he brought with him in the suitcase , a packet of salami sandwiches , a croissant with jam in it and a fruit-and-nut bar , he set off for West End Lane , to the Electricity Board and the Gas Board , to make inquiries about a chimney sweep , and put an advertisement for tenants in a newsagent 's window . |
| 21 | Known as ‘ Puffin' since childhood because of his hooked nose , he had worked with Baird on four previous films and had just finished making The Millionairess , starring Sophia Loren , when he set off for Sweden in October 1960 . |
| 22 | When it came time for him to be knighted by Henry I in Rouen , he set off for Normandy with a crowd of these young men about him . |
| 23 | He set off for Ayr yesterday with five more under his belt and promptly won the first three races , two in photos . |
| 24 | It started with his first kick , and keeping the machine as quiet as possible until clear of the village , he set off for Berkeley . |
| 25 | Next he set off for Jerusalem , then to Rome again , and back to England and London . |
| 26 | Thank you for the silk , glad you were able to wrest it from the Governor before he set off to Lepcis Magna with it . |
| 27 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |
| 28 | On 21 April 1982 he set off from Calcutta with a ticket , one dollar and a bicycle . |