Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set up beside that . |
| 2 | I was instructed to leave my prejudices behind and simply concentrate on having a good time , so I set off with that one idea in mind . |
| 3 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 4 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 5 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 6 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 7 | But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all . |
| 8 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 9 | England captain Graham Gooch offered no excuses for his team 's humiliating defeat , saying : ‘ We set off for this series with high hopes but nothing has gone right for us . |
| 10 | They set off at half past five in Charlotte 's car . |