Example sentences of "set [adv] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UN convoy , due to set out yesterday from Belgrade for the Muslim-held town of Gorazde , was postponed for a day at the request of the Serbs . |
| 2 | We set off early from Gemiler Island , the anchorage closest to their northern end , where we had anchored in perfect shelter , hunting lizards and mosaics in a labyrinth of Byzantine ruins . |
| 3 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 4 | Set furthest away from the road is the house . |
| 5 | There seem to be no discoverable rules about the shape of market places , why some take the form of a large open square — often set rather apart from the main flow of traffic — and some a swelling , a sort of aneurism , in the main artery of trade . |
| 6 | Several shot lying on the bottom act better as a brake if set slightly apart from each other . |
| 7 | Jagatan 's yurt was set well away from the others of the clan . |
| 8 | Vocatives in general are an interesting grammatical category , again underexplored , Vocatives are noun phrases that refer to the addressee , but are not syntactically or semantically incorporated as the arguments of a predicate ; they are rather set apart prosodically from the body , of a sentence that may accompany them . |
| 9 | Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired . |
| 10 | Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed . |