Example sentences of "[noun pl] and set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 2 | Then they have five days to sell the dog , make arrangements for the wife and kids and set off for Moscow 's Star City , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 4 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 5 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 6 | While the creature sought height for another sweep Hrun scrambled to his feet and set off at a dead run for the woods at the edge of the arena . |
| 7 | Undaunted , the Carlist militias — the Requetés — formed into columns and set out for Madrid , some 500 kilometres to the south , in buses , in trucks and on foot . |
| 8 | He put on his sandals and set out for the office of the babu who had the power to give his people what they wanted , or to refuse . |
| 9 | Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions . |
| 10 | A proof must be in the form known as " proof of debt " ( whether the form prescribed by the rules and set out in Sched 4 to the rules as Form 6.37 or a substantially similar form , see App C , form 34 ) and must be signed by the creditor or someone authorised on his behalf ( r 6.69(3) ) . |
| 11 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 12 | So we gritted our teeth and set off along the Pyg-motorway past the army 's blasted and unforgivable folly , writhing and frothing and swearing and laughing aghast — the vapours thickening the while , so that when we looked down from Bwlch Moch , Llydaw was rimless , leaden obscurity and our hair mist-beaded like grizzled Rastafarians . |
| 13 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |
| 14 | Only he had watched , fascinated , as the pool of blood collecting around the spilt innards suddenly burst its confines and set off down the road , finding its way slowly and with difficulty , its bright fresh surface soon matted with dust and drowning insects . |
| 15 | When the sun began to sink and the evening grew cold , they stripped their clothes from the thorn trees , collected together their pans and bamboo brooms and set out across the bridge for home . |
| 16 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 17 | The leaf-cutting ants of South America build vast underground nests and set off from them , day and night , in long columns to demolish trees , removing every shoot , leaf and stem , section by tiny section and transporting them all back to their underground chambers . |
| 18 | So it was that with high spirits I packed Baedekers and prejudices , boots and a bootload of assumptions and set out for Dover . |
| 19 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
| 20 | We put on our képis , straightened our ties , pulled our fingers into regulation gloves and set off for the guardhouse . |
| 21 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
| 22 | Not to be denied , at least a dozen fans hailed waiting taxis and set off in pursuit . |
| 23 | So the next morning at dawn the poor wife took her baby in her arms and set out along the shore . |
| 24 | I cradled the gun in my arms and set off at Emergency Speed , hurtling down the path back to the island at maximum , trusting to luck and adrenalin that I would n't put a foot wrong and end up lying gasping in the grass with a multiple fracture of the femur . |
| 25 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 26 | Randolph , smiling from ear to ear , quickly dressed into warm clothes and set out towards the toy factory . |
| 27 | But Mr Clinton , 46 , was yesterday taking no chances and set out on a final round-the-clock trek to nine states before heading home today to cast his own vote . |
| 28 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 29 | In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York . |