Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ I 'm surprised you did n't set up somewhere in a city , ’ she went on , tearing her glance from his face .
32 Did they set up again under a different name ?
33 Zambia had not seen Alix for months , ever since she 'd set up home with the kid with prosthetic limbs who claimed his disfigurement was due to a variety of fantasies , all of which were subject to detail change , and none of which ever sounded convincing .
34 ‘ Because you 're afraid that , jobless , I might set up home with Travis ! ’ she exploded spiritedly .
35 What else was plain , though , was that she had wasted her time in trying to turn the tables on Naylor Massingham by hinting that , jobless , she might set up home with Travis .
36 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 ’ .
37 Only 100 years ago a zoo meant a series of caged animals set up exclusively for recreation .
38 Most of the red-throated divers which appear in the inshore voes at this time will be local breeders , and territories and relationships will be sorted out with much caterwauling and chasing before the successful pair set up home on some peaty pool .
39 Parents tried to help their children set up home with the aid of a ‘ marriage portion ’ , but most couples had to rely mainly on their own savings .
40 Many set up home across the south , beginning lives again from scratch .
41 They set up home in London 's Chelsea , but busy schedules have forced them to live apart .
42 Why not just leave — set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew ?
43 Thus the original organizations set up mainly by ‘ outsiders ’ — Mining Awareness ( Galway ) and Mining Awareness ( Mayo ) — were not in fact anti-mining groups , but wished only to initiate public debate .
44 Set up yesterday in association with agricultural accountants Grant Thornton the desk will be staffed by experts in all areas of taxation .
45 Set out badly like this , it may not seem diabolically clever .
46 It was a cold , bright morning when we set out cheerfully down the river .
47 They were a very sober pair as they set out again for Gore .
48 It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years .
49 It also states in para 12 that ‘ the principles set out above in respect of disposals also apply to closures of businesses and to negative goodwill ’ .
50 Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA .
51 Already in his fifties , Borrow was not apparently disconcerted to find the coach meeting the train at Plymouth was full but set out accordingly on foot to St. Cleer , where he was offered hospitality by the Taylor family at Penquite Farm .
52 In any public confrontation a quick assessment and early resolution is the order of the day , for on the streets pragmatism always rules and ‘ real polises ’ set out immediately to ‘ fix ’ their adversaries by using deeply imbued constructs relating to time and space .
53 In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country .
54 The model we set out earlier in Chapter 6 is reproduced here in Figure 16 .
55 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 .
56 The principles set out below for determining when an obligation of confidence will arise would therefore seem equally applicable to both equitable and implied contractual obligations .
57 Set out below in A is an example of the accounting policies proposed by MAS / vendors accountants in real transactions .
58 Instead , the siege mentality towards the accompanying press party , that has wrecked morale on previous tours , notably the 1986 trip to the West Indies , has set in again with a vengeance .
59 After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam .
60 The Welshman had set off home in a cold fury .
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