Example sentences of "they set [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do they wait by their car … or do they set out in search of a phone ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | They 've re-opened an incident room they set up in November when a fourteen year old girl was raped . |
| 7 | They set out in relatively light winds and gentle snow , with Met Office reports that the winds would drop . |
| 8 | Eventually , after one false start , when Edward assumed ( wrongly ) that Helen would not come , they set off in late November '95 for a short walk to Wimbledon , followed four days later by a trip to Croydon . |
| 9 | They set off in November 1923 and it took a year to set up the expedition . |
| 10 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |
| 11 | But they set off in April — and forgot to tell the town hall . |
| 12 | When the indicator board clacked out the information BAGGAGE IN HALL against their flight , a circle of bell-ringers in my stomach all heaved on their ropes at the same time , and the terrible clangour they set off in my skull could only be stilled by a couple of stiff ones at the bar . |
| 13 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 14 | NICK FALDO and Tom Kite , the reigning Open champions on both sides of the Atlantic , will meet ‘ head to head ’ when they set off in pursuit of the second major title of the golfing year in the US Open on Thursday . |
| 15 | and er they set off in hot pursuit . |