Example sentences of "we set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |
| 2 | I arrived at the Castle early on Monday morning , and after a glass of rum and milk , we set out on the road . |
| 3 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 4 | We set out for the inlet , pulling a shrieking Maha , surrounded by the usual bevy of children and urged on by the boys , maids and especially the Youngest Son , who was always ready to tease and laugh . |
| 5 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
| 6 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 7 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 8 | Following our appointment to [ nature of appointment ] and in confirmation of our recent discussion with … , we set out below the nature of the responsibilities which we undertake in that appointment and our understanding of the further services which you wish us to perform . |
| 9 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 10 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |
| 11 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 12 | At nine o'clock that night we set out in the pouring rain , our car packed with people and stores of food , picking our way through lorries , mules and men on foot . |
| 13 | Although Johnson twice found the hillocky little town lacking — ‘ At night we came to Bamff [ sic ] , where I remember nothing that particularly claimed my attention ’ ; and ‘ Finding nothing to detain us at Bamff , we set out in the morning ’ — he yet managed to write a short exercise in observation of Scottish small borough architecture . |
| 14 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 15 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 16 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 17 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 18 | We set off for the ‘ shoot ’ on what turned out to be a dull , damp and extremely grey day , to Ickworth House and gardens — a National Trust property — near Bury St. Edmunds . |
| 19 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 20 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 21 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 22 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 23 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 24 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 25 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 26 | Our 1963 Herald 12/50 was keen to get going , and at the allotted time we set off through the Borders and towards North Yorkshire . |
| 27 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
| 28 | Soon after breakfast we set off into the jungle . |
| 29 | I had acquired and learned to drive an old Hillman during the summer and , piling two tired and travel-sick children into the back with our parcels , we set off into the night . |
| 30 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |