Example sentences of "they set [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set up camp on the Kālādika , unloading the yaks and lighting a fire as the moon rose low behind the trees . |
| 2 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 3 | For the next ten days they set up camp at Etaples , spending their mornings being marched over dunes , their afternoons being instructed in gas warfare and their evenings being told by Captain Trentham the different ways they could die . |
| 4 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 5 | This morning they set up road blocks and questioned hundreds of motorists . |
| 6 | They set up diversions at Quy and Six Mile Bottom , East Cambridgeshire council helped clear grain and Suffolk police aided traffic filtering on the westbound side . |
| 7 | They set up sessions where people could come and talk about the families , and make statements about the sort of people they were . |
| 8 | With the greater prevalence of cohabitation as a prelude to marriage , many couples feel they make their public commitment to each other when they set up house together and sign the joint mortgage form . |
| 9 | With the help of a legacy from Raisley Calvert [ q.v. ] , they set up house together at Racedown , Dorset ( 1795 ) . |
| 10 | They set up house in No. 93 , which was now to let . |
| 11 | Instead , they set out rules : the battle was to be " without any fraud " ; it was to be preceded by fasting and prayer . |
| 12 | They set out policies for future mineral development and often contain useful information about past and current mineral working in the area . |
| 13 | They set about building what Sidney Blumenthal , a journalist , calls a ‘ counter-establishment ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I know I look tired , ’ Vitor said , as they set off north , ‘ and I feel bushed . |
| 15 | Travel was a hazardous business in the eighteenth century : two days after they set off Leopold wrote : |
| 16 | But what he probably means is that they set up signs for |
| 17 | That they set off neck and neck . |