Example sentences of "they [vb past] set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 2 | I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça . |
| 3 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 4 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 5 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 6 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |