Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 2 | It is , in fact , sensible to take your sound recorder along with you whenever you set off on a major shoot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 5 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 6 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 7 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |