Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 2 | They set up camp on the Kālādika , unloading the yaks and lighting a fire as the moon rose low behind the trees . |
| 3 | They set up camp on the uninhabited island ; and started a barbecue . |
| 4 | ‘ My prime concern was to get an overview of the main environmental concerns we would face if we set up operations in the area , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 6 | which set up heavings in the audience |
| 7 | This week , the company opened its first European office in London to serve US expatriates and UK investors with an eye on the US market — locking horns in the process with its main American rival , Fidelity Brokerage , which set up shop in the UK four years ago . |
| 8 | The answer probably lies in the way so called principles set up expectations for the future . |
| 9 | Surveying reports on the relevant customary behaviour in 350 separate ‘ societies ’ , Tylor was able to demonstrate that , when the newlyweds set up house with the wife 's kin , avoidance behaviour between the latter and the husband occurred more frequently than could be expected on the basis of mere chance . |
| 10 | Thus many nurse educators now set up simulations in the nurse education centre or the ward which allow direct experience of practical nursing skills . |
| 11 | As an example , in Cambridge the Regional Authority community officers set up co-operatives in the belief that these were ‘ natural ’ and only lacked resources to succeed . |
| 12 | She then set out details of the assistance which she said would be available . |
| 13 | But the model does provide an explanation of why fieldworking anthropologists set about things in the way they do . |