Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 2 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |
| 3 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 4 | By the time he set off with Christian he had half formulated a plan to help with the future he had in mind for himself . |
| 5 | Leaving Colonel Doughty-Wylie in charge of the Legation , he set off for Dire Dawa by caravan on 4 May and arrived in England on 15 June . |