Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor . |
| 2 | But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) . |
| 3 | we set down in a passing-place and basked |
| 4 | They set off across a water meadow rich with buttercups and decorated with Friesian cows , like a television advertisement for some environmentally dubious product : petrol or fast cars . |
| 5 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 6 | A few chapters of Music , Mind , and Brain are stimulating and produce the right sort of sparks ; but others jar either because they are couched in long-winded jargon , or because they set off with a title and intent , which lead one to expect something new in the way of results , but then degenerate into vague speculations . |
| 7 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 8 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 9 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 10 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 11 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 12 | Without the dehumidifier the crew would often be cold and wet even before they set off on a mission . |
| 13 | With full combat kit , helmet , rifle and webbing , and weighed down by a thirty-five pound rucksack , we set off on a run . |
| 14 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 15 | ALDWYCH Group staff set off on a treasure hunt — only to find they had to visit 15 pubs en route ! |
| 16 | For example , this is a passage of interpretive description of a Van Gogh self-portrait : ‘ … his emaciated , luminous head with its burning eyes set off against a whirlpool of darkness . |
| 17 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 18 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 19 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |
| 20 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 21 | Set up at a cost of half a million pounds contributed by CLD and the consortium , this is seen as a long-term project to introduce CLD staff , clients and other interested parties to open systems . |
| 22 | Set up through a partnership between the NHS and private industry , the centre cost half a million pounds to build and can care for fifty patients . |
| 23 | A group of more than 30 travellers ' caravans have now set up on a roadside site a mile from the village at Crew crossroads . |
| 24 | It can be uniquely specified with reference to all the categories set up in a description of the form of the language concerned ; it thus represents the intersection of a grammatical item and lexical item . |
| 25 | OsO4 vapour is highly toxic and this manipulation is best undertaken by incubating embryos in small drops of 0504 under oil in plastic Petri dishes ( set up in a fume cupboard ) . |
| 26 | And having made their decision they set out with a will to forge a network of rough roads through this wilderness that would link the stockades of wire . |
| 27 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 28 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 29 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 30 | My hon. Friend may like to know that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State today set out in a speech the importance of improving and strengthening competition in a range of postal services . |