Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report says her conversion appears genuine and points to the cabinet-level environment committee she set up to convert the ‘ ungreen and powerful ’ Treasury , transport , and energy ministries , but time was running out . |
| 2 | Joanna 's depression vanished immediately and she set off to do the shopping in high spirits while Sophie , equally elated , went to the surgery . |
| 3 | ‘ She said she thought Dick and Joy had forgotten they were to pick her up , so she set off to catch the bus . ’ |
| 4 | She set out to play the world circuit completely on her own , as she had no financial resources and no sponsorship . |
| 5 | Just as bad was the passage of the retinue of Rigunth , as she set out to marry the Visigothic prince Reccared in 584 . |
| 6 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 7 | She was Tim 's first choice when he set out to find the perfect engagement ring for the woman he loved . |
| 8 | When Eligius became bishop of Noyon in 641 he set out to find the bones of the martyr Quentin . |
| 9 | With John Hanning Speke he set out to discover the source of the Nile . |
| 10 | He hardly even noticed the complaints of the people that he shouldered aside , or from the cars that were forced to stop as he set out to cross the street . |
| 11 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 12 | The Mikulić government , which took office in May 1986 , was clearly influenced by such attitudes when it set out to curb the rapidly rising inflation of that year by it policy of ‘ programmed inflation ’ . |