Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne loved a dare , and Terry Rourke 's appeal had been frank and animal — he had excited her , and it had been simple for her to lie to her mother , to set out to go to a girlfriend 's home on the following afternoon and meet Terry instead . |
| 2 | It is natural to set out to look for something with a rigid set of requirements : to know precisely what we are looking for . |
| 3 | Another group of nomes was about to set out to look for them . |
| 4 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 5 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 6 | I set off to look for Nigel — quite a long way down , as the staircases did n't connect and one had to walk the complete length of the first-floor gallery before descending the second . |
| 7 | But he opposed any suggestion that representatives of the environmental movement might sit on the technical committees set up to decide on the safety of any release of genetically manipulated organisms into the environment . |
| 8 | We may set out to search with a tight specification of what we want to find . |
| 9 | You can not ignore it , she wished to set out and she did set out to come to our aid . ’ |
| 10 | Why , I 'm going to do what I set out to do at the start — I 'm going to make sure that bastard marries you ! ’ |
| 11 | I 'm absolutely delighted that we achieved what we set out to do at the beginning of the week , which was to ensure that the Ryder Cup stayed on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 12 | I hope they do what they set out to do for the sake of the people of West Belfast . |
| 13 | That is what we set out to do in this paper , proceeding from three assumptions that differ from those of the traditional leadership literature . |
| 14 | He gave out that he would hold a great meeting and that at that meeting he would give a present to every animal and bird , to make each one different from the rest And all the creatures set out to go to the meeting-place . |
| 15 | How and why sport assumes the status of a central life interest for black kids are the questions I set out to answer in chapter eight . |
| 16 | They set out to peak for this particular match , both to erase from their minds the upset in London two years ago and to prove they could manage a good performance after several indifferent ones . |
| 17 | The feelings that the companies set out to instil with such buildings — admiration , respect , and confidence — are perfectly mirrored in the comment of Dionysius Lardner in Railway Economy ( 1850 ) : |
| 18 | This week saw the second of their massive Kinnockathons , which set out to prove at vast length and with exquisite tedium what Punch first established in May last year , to wit : that both Hansard and the cuttings files are full of daft remarks uttered in the days when the windbag was still a firebrand . |
| 19 | We then set out to look for contacts that come from sources other than the usual lake fish . |
| 20 | As a citizen she was concerned that all too often social workers got an idea in their minds that ritual abuse was taking place , and then set out to look for it , The after-effects , though , were critical , according to Helen Martini . |
| 21 | I set out to get inside the heads of gynaecologists , but what remains in my head is the freeze-frame of that young women with her legs held apart , unconscious , still unaware of a verdict which is likely to affect her whole life . |
| 22 | In one school of thinking , durables , pharmaceutical goods , insurance , etc. , have been christened ‘ information-intensive ’ products , and there are agencies which set out to specialize in this type of product . |
| 23 | We must create our own , which is what I set out to achieve with Passion . |
| 24 | But Smith admitted : ‘ We 've got three points out of four , and that 's what we set out to achieve from the first two games . |
| 25 | In June 1925 , we had a school holiday on a Wednesday , so with a schoolmate set off to ride to Ringwood . |
| 26 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 27 | Here there is a similarity with the way in which a home is set up to cope with the needs and activities of its occupants , who may be compared with the living fire on the hearth ! |
| 28 | Much of this activity was carried out by special commissions especially set up to cope with the flood of material that was uncovered . |
| 29 | committee system : committees are set up to cope with the problems . |
| 30 | Look at it this way : Track Two is now doing just what it was set up to do in just the situation they foresaw : a weak British government getting too close to Moscow . |