Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Habsburg territories Joseph I set up in 1709 a new permanent committee of nine officials to control foreign affairs . |
| 2 | Armed with buckets , nets and battery airpumps , I set off with two willing helpers aged nine and eleven to the seaside . |
| 3 | I set off at 5 am but those Sussex lanes are pitch dark , and hilly ! |
| 4 | We set out before 7 a.m. , but Jean-Claude did not tell me how far away the château stood , or how long it would take to reach the boundary of the domain . |
| 5 | We set off at ten , collected Coconut and bowled along to the woods . |
| 6 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 7 | They set out on 8 April , stopping first at Prague . |
| 8 | They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way . |
| 9 | They set off on 17 January , carried by Captain Hunter 's LRDG patrol and navigated once again by Mike Sadler . |
| 10 | Right hand gear change , non-synchromesh gearbox and in a very odd posture for driving , they set off for 5 laps in these amazing cars . |