Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She set off to find a lift . |
| 2 | She set off to walk a mile to the mountain cable car on Wednesday . |
| 3 | CLAUDIE Garner did n't hang about when she set out to break a UK speed record . |
| 4 | With the help of Steve and Rachael Dalton , from the Southampton Ski Stylers , and moral support and advice from John Shedden and Denis Edwards , at the ESC , she set about creating a well-organised path for young freestylers to follow to international level . |
| 5 | Sure enough , right in front of her astonished onlookers , she set about disembowelling a dead chick . |
| 6 | She set about making a pot of tea . |
| 7 | Taking a bag of soft white ricotta cheese from the fridge , she set about making a budino Toscano . |
| 8 | There were only three er criteria when we set out to choose a firm . |
| 9 | as we could , as I was talking to our group yesterday well , now that is the one game they set out to make a , your partner unconscious by shaking the brain inside the skull and that 's what exactly what they 're doing . |
| 10 | The loudspeaker radio system he set up became a great success and became a model for others throughout Argentina . |
| 11 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |
| 12 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 13 | He set out to launch a North American colony to which Catholics could retreat to avoid the discrimination that seemed to have become unalterably established in England and in New England . |
| 14 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 15 | He followed this with a traditional French bakery in Oxford while he set about converting a 15th century Cotswold manor house into Le Manoir , which opened in 1984 and has since become one of Britain 's most exclusive restaurants . |
| 16 | It was on this basis that he set about creating a new monastic life with all the force and organizational ability which he possessed . |
| 17 | I asked Rooney how he set about completing a picture . |
| 18 | By August , Crawford was well established in Dunedin , having found board in the seaside suburb of St Clair , and he set about grooming a training squad from which the Otago team for the coming season would be selected . |
| 19 | Their personal contact goes back to June 1991 , when Yeltsin , newly elected Russian president but under threat from the Soviet army and KGB , was seeking the support of reliable elements as he set about forming a government . |
| 20 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 21 | I asked Blamey how he set about painting a portrait . |
| 22 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |