Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 2 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 3 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 4 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 5 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 6 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 7 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 8 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 9 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 10 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 11 | You set off in a strong boat with keen crew , but your ship is dashed upon the rocks off The Isle of the Crown , and the adventure starts with your hero having been washed up on the beach of that isle and with a firm desire to seek out his long lost love … |
| 12 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 13 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
| 14 | So we set off for a last look round . |
| 15 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 16 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
| 17 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 18 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 19 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 20 | And having made their decision they set out with a will to forge a network of rough roads through this wilderness that would link the stockades of wire . |
| 21 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 22 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |
| 23 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 24 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 25 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 26 | Heads down , they set off at a fast trot which lasted until Loretta twisted her ankle . |
| 27 | In Siam , Thomson teamed up with a journalist called Kennedy , and , together with a large entourage , they set off on a perilous journey to Cambodia . |
| 28 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 29 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 30 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |