Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implementation of these concessions , made by the captive King John in London , was refused by the council in France , and late in 1359 Edward set out with a large army for France to see how persuasive a strong show of force could be . |
| 2 | Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary . |
| 3 | As the Renault set off down the drive , Vitor placed an arm around Ashley 's shoulders . |
| 4 | OOam on a crisp Spring morning , 2O staff from Wallington set off on a 46 mile sponsored bike ride from Wallington to Brighton . |
| 5 | Pepita set down among the crates to wait for her friend and the rum to reach her . |
| 6 | Ten days later , at eight-thirty in the morning of Wednesday , 22nd January , Robyn Penrose set off in a snowstorm and an ill humour to begin her stint as the University of Rummidge Faculty of Arts Industry Year Shadow , or URFAIYS as she was designated in memoranda emanating from the Vice-Chancellor 's Office . |
| 7 | West Indies soon lost Haynes , but Richards , on his home ground , and Greenidge set off at an explosive pace with 45 off the first seven overs . |
| 8 | Markby set out on a different line of approach . |
| 9 | An opportunity for escape occurred shortly afterwards when she and Wordsworth set off on a walking tour into the Wye Valley . |
| 10 | Early that afternoon , as soon as she could get away from a lunch with colleagues from her department , Loretta set off for the Sunday Herald building . |
| 11 | The sky was cloudy when Giles set off after an early breakfast . |
| 12 | No idea what time Vern set off for the bus , but it must be time for the next one by now . |
| 13 | Julia set off towards the Dorsoduro , beginning to feel really ill with a headache pounding behind her left eyebrow , smarting eyes , a rasped throat and a nose that felt as though it were stuffed with hot , wet flannel with a few pins in it , but even so she decided to give her lesson . |
| 14 | Marshall set off in a new direction . |
| 15 | In 1917 Griffiths set up as a consulting chemical engineer in the City of London , a career which he pursued with increasing success until his death . |
| 16 | Prentice put his arms round Rory 's neck and got up onto his back ; Rory set off at a run . |
| 17 | In the first half of 1858 gentry committees like those which the Nazimov Rescript set up in the north-western provinces came into being throughout the European part of the empire . |
| 18 | Yorkshire set out on the final day in a difficult position , still 130 runs away from making Hampshire bat again , but with all wickets in hand . |
| 19 | In practice , Oxfordshire , Somerset , Leicestershire and Coventry set out on an ambitious exercise simultaneously with the development of the Northern Record of Achievement and the London Record of Achievement . |
| 20 | After watching the train steam away with Christian waving from an open carriage window until he was out of sight , Carrie and Seb set off on the return journey in the gig . |
| 21 | Pretty certain this must be the man , Paige set off down the street , stopping every now and then to look in shop windows and cast surreptitious glances backwards . |
| 22 | Joseph set off for the door but Rain got there first . |
| 23 | could be the two of them they just , when er , when Lee set out on a Saturday evening with er Kevin and they often sit there and er have a , er a bit of a snack , supper , light supper and er |
| 24 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |
| 25 | His father was a police constable in the borough police at Helston , but the family emigrated to New Zealand , probably in 1872 , and settled at Timaru , South Island , where most of the settlers were of Cornish descent , and James Fitzsimmons set up as a blacksmith . |
| 26 | Fleischmann and Pons set out on a different course initially , but one that had already been charted in Europe in the 1920s and 30s . |
| 27 | Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms . |
| 28 | Chola and Mina set out for the fields to continue the millet harvest , and Kalchu fetched the flat wooden spade and began beating down the mud to repair the leaking roof . |
| 29 | Soon afterwards Chola and Mina set out for the hills to gather grass . |
| 30 | On the contrary , all seemed set fair , and when they had loaded the packing-cases on to the cart Matey and McAllister set off for the church hall , to lay out the stall , to have everything ready for the afternoon 's visitors , Dr Neil having promised to come along to help them . |