Example sentences of "set [adv prt] with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked round the deep red walls of the dining room , set off with black paintwork . |
| 2 | As England discovered in 1986 when they performed so lamentably at the international sevens tournaments in Sydney , it is just not possible to turn round a few weeks before an event and pick up a team and set off with any expectation of success . |
| 3 | The St Petersburg Assembly of Factory Workers , set up with official approval in February 1904 , broke loose from its sponsors and under the leadership of Father Gapon , a maverick but inspired orator , helped foster a virtual general strike in the capital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Publicity shy Anne , who tried to keep details of her wedding secret , set out with black gloves to hide the sparkler . |
| 6 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 7 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 8 | He would play the part of the upright citizen , the dull wounded little man whose horizons were bounded by the daily journey to the office , the suburban garden and the suburban sky , set around with suburban roofs and neat suburban trees . |