Example sentences of "they set [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did they set up again under a different name ? |
| 2 | At the time Mr Justice Macpherson said the decision of the Merseyside police authority chairman , Mr George Brundred , and his deputy , Mr Harry Rimmer , leader of Liverpool City Council , to delegate her case to a committee they set up expressly for the purpose ‘ had the smell of unfairness about it ’ . |
| 3 | Long before the prayer was answered , Malc fell in love with a bus conductress and they set up home together , while the kids and I went back to live with my Pop . |
| 4 | They set up home together . |
| 5 | They set up home in London 's Chelsea , but busy schedules have forced them to live apart . |
| 6 | They set down clearly a record of decisions made . |
| 7 | They were a very sober pair as they set out again for Gore . |
| 8 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 9 | Dr Neil carefully replaced her recent gift to him in the trug , before taking it from her , and watched by Rose , peering interestedly from the kitchen window , they set out together for Vetch Street . |
| 10 | Then , with only a few hundred yards separating them now from their foes , they set off seawards . |
| 11 | None o' the farmers had thought about having their horses roughed , and they set off extra early that morning to go to the Christmas market . |
| 12 | They set off briskly , boots echoing hollowly from the paving-stones . |
| 13 | After a walk back to the inn and a half-hour wait , they set off again for Bath , very much relieved that matters had not been worse . |
| 14 | Indeed they were given a meal , more substantial than any they had been able to enjoy at Berwick for a while , before they set off again . |
| 15 | When there were , the engine driver would stop the train and get out of his cab and shoo them off , and sometimes he 'd wait so that everyone could get down from the carriages and stretch their legs and pick blackberries before they set off again . |
| 16 | After half an hour or so , the two of them restored their employer to her feet , and they set off again , Miss Fergusson leaning on the guide 's arm with a strange nonchalance , as if she were being conducted round a cathedral or a zoological garden . |
| 17 | ‘ There 'll be scent enough today , ’ she said as they set off again for the meet . |
| 18 | They set off again at a stately pace . |
| 19 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 20 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 21 | They set off early to beat the traffic , and instead of blossom there were dead leaves on the pavement and a thin white mould of frost . |
| 22 | ‘ Satisfy my curiosity , ’ he said as they set off early next morning . |
| 23 | At the same time , cars were numbered in accordance with the time they set off so the thousands of spectators that lined the route could get some indication who was leading . |
| 24 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 25 | Packing up their equipment , they set off home . |
| 26 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 27 | So they set off anyway and just in no time at all they were coming into the shore below Greentoft . |
| 28 | It 's just a question of whether the two of them set off home together or whether he left early and waited for her . " |