Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us . |
4 | Joseph lunged toward it , but the sight of him terrorized the gibbon further , and it set off frantically towards the only visible refuge . |
5 | ‘ 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 … |
6 | 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 . |
7 | She turned from the shop-window and set off briskly down the street towards the Stefansplatz , Karelius striding alongside . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The guide nodded and set off briskly across the floor . |
10 | He had n't time , he thought , and he set off briskly towards the blacksmith 's , his rucksack and his bags already bulging . |
11 | Fearon dragged it on over his sweater , tugged a disreputable flat cap over his wet hair and set off briskly towards the yard . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Next day they left Seton to his problems and set off northwards up the coast for Dunbar , thirty miles . |
14 | She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once . |
15 | Four bombs , set off earlier in the day in Santiago by suspected members of the ultra-right September 11 Commando caused minor structural damage . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | With that he relaxed his grasp and set off alone in the direction of the Chelonians . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | In May , it opened a new petrol station in Hungary , to add to the 15 set up there in the early 1970s . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Gloag moved to Glasgow where , with an unmarried sister , he set up home in the university . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Each time he scrambled out , took a short rest , and set out again for the next refuge . |
29 | Captain Crunch software should be available to multimedia developers soon , and Media Vision expects to have a video chip set out later in the year costing around $50 , with a full add-in board costing under $300 . |
30 | In the month of Sāun , Kalchu and Sigarup set out together across the mountains on a pilgrimage to Rānāmāche Lake . |