Example sentences of "[noun pl] have set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 2 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 3 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 4 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 5 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope you remembered to bring a tin-opener , ’ said Sophia , in confusion , for the idea of taking food to the deprived Roman cats had set up in her head a muddled train of thought , which had something to do with Anglo- and Roman Catholicism , as if the latter had need of nourishment from the former . |
| 7 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 8 | A TRIO of Cleveland pensioners have set off on the trip of a lifetime to the bulbfields of Holland . |
| 9 | Even in Wales , where gloom and doom should have been the order of the next year or two , the clubs have set off in a style which has brought , instead , a nervous smile or two . |
| 10 | Since then , 110 enterprises have set up in the centre 's offices , retail outlets and workshops . |