Example sentences of "they set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What time did they set off to Rotherham ? |
| 2 | Do they wait by their car … or do they set out in search of a phone ? |
| 3 | ( First Edition ) Two senior council officers were suspended on full pay pending an inquiry into a chain of consultancy companies they set up on public health , waste management , food hygiene and urban renewal . |
| 4 | Most managers want to take commission on any deals they set up for the artist . |
| 5 | They set up at the foot of the first escalator . |
| 6 | They sold the cutter at a profit , and travelled the length of the country to Edinburgh , where they set up in business , this time as respectable linen drapers . |
| 7 | The Zamoyski family 's attempts to reactivate a foundation they set up in the 1920s at Kornik , a Scottish-baronial monstrosity housing a priceless library of early illuminated manuscripts and incunabula , are being thwarted by the Polish Academy of Learning , which swallowed it up in 1945 . |
| 8 | In addition to jobs , the measurable benefits of economic TNPs include the exports due to foreign firms , and the backward linkages that they set up in the host economy , that is the locally produced goods and services they purchase , either from existing firms or from firms established primarily to supply the TNCs . |
| 9 | ‘ Joanna will have her work cut out to convince him that she 's the equal of any man when they set up in practice together . ’ |
| 10 | They 've re-opened an incident room they set up in November when a fourteen year old girl was raped . |
| 11 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 12 | Whatever the outcome , the tendency to rationalize , ie for people to claim that they did achieve what they set out to , is high . |
| 13 | Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be : a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly . |
| 14 | But they set out for the Town Hall none the less . |
| 15 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |
| 16 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 17 | They set out for the club toward the end of the afternoon . |
| 18 | And having made their decision they set out with a will to forge a network of rough roads through this wilderness that would link the stockades of wire . |
| 19 | As we pray this prayer we join with those generous young men as they set out on their missionary journeys . |
| 20 | The interior of the Americas , beyond the great mountains east of Lima , was still a mystery , but a mystery that brave men were challenging : with immense courage and endurance they set out on travels both dangerous and dazzling . |
| 21 | They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way . |
| 22 | ‘ The marshal , ’ complained one of his officers even before they set out on the futile march to Carlisle , ‘ is infirm and peevish … both in body and mind , forgetful , irresolute and perplext . ’ |
| 23 | They know the grandchildren will grow up with a mixture of character traits collected from way back , on both sides of the family , but they like to think that something of theirs , some good trait or talent , will be packed somewhere in their grandchildren 's psychological ‘ baggage ’ when they set out on their journey into adult life . |
| 24 | They set out on 8 April , stopping first at Prague . |
| 25 | They set out at dusk on 13 September and soon discovered that they were in the wrong wadi . |
| 26 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 27 | They set out towards the west , taking their direction from the sun , but the density of thorn thickets constantly drove them from their line . |
| 28 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 29 | Any decision on taxation has to be taken by the member states unanimously and there now seems little hope that the Commission can deflect them from the course they set out upon yesterday . |
| 30 | They set out by coach one fine morning , and when they arrived in London , they went straight to Mr Brownlow 's house . |