Example sentences of "set [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his amused , unshocked expression , his bush-hat set so jauntily on the back of his head , this American was difficult to take . |
| 2 | On the Somerset Levels , inundated by heavy floods in 1872 and 1873 , a report described how ‘ Ague set in early in the spring and is now very prevalent … among the poorer families who are badly fed and clothed . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired . |
| 4 | We finished serving lunch and coffee and cleared up , and as soon as I decently could I left the kitchen and set off forward up the train . |
| 5 | Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us . |
| 6 | Joseph lunged toward it , but the sight of him terrorized the gibbon further , and it set off frantically towards the only visible refuge . |
| 7 | ‘ Messrs. Gould and Gunn set off to-day to the head of the [ Recherche ] Bay to a plain , which appears to run up many miles into the country the hill called South Cape , which presents towards the bay a steep and particularly denuded surface … |
| 8 | Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed . |
| 9 | She turned from the shop-window and set off briskly down the street towards the Stefansplatz , Karelius striding alongside . |
| 10 | Then they form up into single file with as many as fifty in a column , each animal touching the rear end of the one ahead with its stick-like antennae , and set off briskly across the sandy sea floor , heading for deeper water . |
| 11 | The guide nodded and set off briskly across the floor . |
| 12 | He had n't time , he thought , and he set off briskly towards the blacksmith 's , his rucksack and his bags already bulging . |
| 13 | Fearon dragged it on over his sweater , tugged a disreputable flat cap over his wet hair and set off briskly towards the yard . |
| 14 | At the Grand , David Swan fastened his amended photopass to his jacket and set off briskly towards the conference centre some two hundred yards away . |
| 15 | Next day they left Seton to his problems and set off northwards up the coast for Dunbar , thirty miles . |
| 16 | She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once . |
| 17 | Four bombs , set off earlier in the day in Santiago by suspected members of the ultra-right September 11 Commando caused minor structural damage . |
| 18 | With a half-shudder , she left the lower bowel and set off gingerly along the rather treacherous surface of the greater intestine which coiled before her — a tunnel she was n't too sure she saw the light at the end of . |
| 19 | With that he relaxed his grasp and set off alone in the direction of the Chelonians . |
| 20 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 21 | For this purpose the investigators are using the UK Family Expenditure Survey pooled over the years 1970 to 1985 set up jointly with the Institute for Fiscal Studies . |
| 22 | Eventually , a central department set up jointly by the refugee committees helped to alleviate major problems like the treatment of refugees as Nazis , refugees and Nazis being kept in close proximity , inadequate accommodation , lack of adequate medical care and the separation of families . |
| 23 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |
| 24 | Meanwhile Saddam Hussein massed troops in northern Iraq in apparent preparation , said the United States , for an attack on the ‘ safe haven ’ set up there for the Iraqi Kurds . |
| 25 | In May , it opened a new petrol station in Hungary , to add to the 15 set up there in the early 1970s . |
| 26 | Party members can leave Britain , set up home on the other side of the world and retain their membership cards under Walworth Road 's overseas membership arrangements . |
| 27 | Gloag moved to Glasgow where , with an unmarried sister , he set up home in the university . |
| 28 | Pupils would then lob ping-pong balls in his direction and he would swing his tremendous member with the aim of knocking the balls into a waste-bin set up especially for the occasion . |
| 29 | Within the hour Robert set out up-river to the ford by Pool , to carry the news across the river to the castellan at Castell Coch ; and before the morning was out , a rider was despatched on the long ride to Llewelyn 's court at Aber . |
| 30 | Each time he scrambled out , took a short rest , and set out again for the next refuge . |