Example sentences of "set [adv prt] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteenth August — the 1st Commando Brigade left the area south of Bavent and set off in pursuit of the enemy . |
| 2 | He remounted immediately and set off in pursuit of the other runners , but as a Gold Cup trial the race was a mess , and the announcement that Jonjo O'Neill was once more to replace Mullins for the big race came as no surprise . |
| 3 | Rushing off across the moors he set off in pursuit of Tamara . |
| 4 | They immediately phoned Allen , who has a car business at Lower Wield , and he set off in pursuit of the gang . |
| 5 | He set off in pursuit of the fatally wounded officer shouting : ‘ He is still alive , I am going to get him . ’ |
| 6 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 7 | It set off in pursuit of the Capri , but lost it about five miles away , outside the town of Forth in Lanarkshire . |
| 8 | As soon as he learned of the rebels ' withdrawal from Derby , he sent orders to Field Marshal Wade to intercept them from the west while his own army set off in pursuit from the south . |
| 9 | Posing as the authors of a book on fisheries of the world , Thornton and Higgs , accompanied by an interpreter , set off in search of evidence of the continuing carnage . |
| 10 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 11 | Not knowing the vintage of this picture , the Doctor and Barbara set off in search of Ian and Vicki . |
| 12 | Imagine the scene : as the sun rises over the purple hills of Umbria in central Italy , Franco Scarponi and his son Adolfo set off in search of one of the region 's most highly prized delicacies — juniper berries . |
| 13 | Recalling last night 's guided tour , she set off in search of his office . |
| 14 | Tom put two and two together and set off in search of the youths , asking the Security Guard to summon the Police . |
| 15 | Once the press had exhausted the possibilities of interviewing the two of us , and had decided that our unregenerate and politically incorrect tourers were not what they wanted in a photograph , one enterprising organiser set off in search of better material . |
| 16 | The major new documentary series of the year was Granada 's widely acclaimed ‘ Disappearing World ’ in which Brian Moser set off in search of native tribes in the remotest parts of the world . |
| 17 | We decided to stay where we were while Johnny and Gavin , who were both experienced cyclists , set off in search of the minibus . |
| 18 | With some applications though , you may need to change your printer set up in order to be able to use them . |
| 19 | But a CCETSW working party set up in response to the acute shortage of practice placements heard evidence that social workers finishing DipSW courses were having problems finding jobs . |
| 20 | The Qualitas Furnishing Standards Scheme , set up in response to an Office of Fair Trading report in 1990 , was expensive and would need active support if it is to progress . |
| 21 | Organisers of the Selective Silence exhibition claim it is a UN sanctions-busting event , set up in defiance of a Department of Trade and Industry ban on links — including cultural — with Serbia . |
| 22 | This case concerned a man who set up in competition with the business that had previously employed him . |
| 23 | ‘ Is it not remarkable , ’ she said , her pretty brows arched in bewilderment , ‘ that an organisation set up in support of the family is thereby assumed to be against the welfare state ? |
| 24 | He won a competition set up in memory of Catherine Kenyon . |
| 25 | THE proceeds of a fund set up in memory of a former MP will be used to maintain mountain footpaths in the Snowdonia National Park . |
| 26 | By that I mean that he considers schematic ways of making measurements , set up in accord with the rules of the theory , and sees if by any ingenious means he can circumvent a restriction like that imposed by equation [ 2 ] . |
| 27 | I DO N'T KNOW what political fringe group was responsible for the little table set up in front of the main Boston Post Office . |
| 28 | They consisted of an elaborate sequence of libations poured into a large vessel on an altar between two double-axes mounted on painted pyramidal bases ; grave-goods were dedicated to the sheepskin-draped statue of a god in front of another altar ; offerings of food and drink were dedicated at a third altar set up in front of a sacred tree shrine ; music was played and an ox and two goats were sacrificed . |
| 29 | John stormed out and set up in business on his own . |
| 30 | Those taking up job-release allowances must not take a job or set up in business on their own , and their employer must undertake to recruit as soon as possible a registered unemployed worker . |