Example sentences of "set [adv] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmer 's wife has kindly pressed my kilt and I set off into town with a small group of Commandos , all of us determined to enjoy ourselves , and , of course , to sort out the local French girls . |
| 2 | The feudal lords — who could afford real glass — usually had it set directly into stone or metal . |
| 3 | Ted Wragg , describing his work as adviser to the Parliamentary Select Committee into the attainment of the school leaver ( 1976/7 ) , reports that mathematics was the topic that came up by far the most frequently in all the submissions to that Committee , and one of its recommendations was that an inquiry should be set up into mathematics teaching . |
| 4 | subject I sometimes wonder if sometimes the Tory politicians are like Jehovah 's Witnesses really , they sort of set out into battle and say go out and convert these people , we 're gon na slam the door on them . |
| 5 | The new farmsteads were being built at the same time , set snugly into shelter belts of oak , beech and elm , nursed up by Scots pines . |
| 6 | And then there had been Julius 's mother , always dressed in dark , expensive suits , with every strand of her silver hair set firmly into place . |