Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 2 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 3 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 4 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 5 | And then they set off from there into Kirkwall about What time ? |
| 6 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 7 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 8 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |