Example sentences of "[noun sg] they set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At nightfall they set off down the escarpment and in holiday mood were soon bowling merrily along the coast road . |
| 2 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 3 | After lunch they set off to Kingsburgh for one of their most memorable encounters . |
| 4 | They 've re-opened an incident room they set up in November when a fourteen year old girl was raped . |
| 5 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 6 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 7 | The interior of the Americas , beyond the great mountains east of Lima , was still a mystery , but a mystery that brave men were challenging : with immense courage and endurance they set out on travels both dangerous and dazzling . |
| 8 | When the indicator board clacked out the information BAGGAGE IN HALL against their flight , a circle of bell-ringers in my stomach all heaved on their ropes at the same time , and the terrible clangour they set off in my skull could only be stilled by a couple of stiff ones at the bar . |
| 9 | Any decision on taxation has to be taken by the member states unanimously and there now seems little hope that the Commission can deflect them from the course they set out upon yesterday . |
| 10 | And having made their decision they set out with a will to forge a network of rough roads through this wilderness that would link the stockades of wire . |
| 11 | A young attendant in a blue uniform respectfully opened the door , and as soon as Luce had been settled into the grey suede luxury of the front passenger-seat they set off for the mainland . |
| 12 | With a companion in a BN Islander and Spencer in an Aero Commander they set off for Botswana . |