Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |
| 2 | With the youngest of her three children now at nursery school near their home in Somerset , Helen works part-time in the business she set up with a friend , organising helium balloon decorations for parties and weddings . |
| 3 | Froissart in his Chronicles describes the probably schizophrenic Charles VI , who set out on a punitive expedition to Brittany , in spite of being ordered to rest by his doctors , who had evidently recognised the signs of an approaching attack . |
| 4 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 5 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 6 | So one set out with a policy of having good human relations and my friendship with Marcus Sieff ( now president of Marks $ Spencer ) dating back to 1953 has also had an influence . |
| 7 | He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952 . |
| 8 | On his return to Britain , he set up as a portrait painter in both London and Edinburgh , purveying the Grand Manner to all buyers , but even then it was a restrained baroque , tempered by Ramsay 's own unmelodramatic personality . |
| 9 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
| 10 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 11 | After six months as a house surgeon at Essex County Hospital , Colchester , he set up as a country doctor in the New Forest , his amusing recollections of which appeared in St. Bartholomew 's Hospital Journal ( 1933–5 ) . |
| 12 | He was apprenticed in 1735 to a Stockton apothecary and surgeon before moving to London , where he set up as a chemist in Upper East Smithfield during 1743 . |
| 13 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
| 14 | Nick Hern has exchanged contracts with Random House for the acquisition of Nick Hern Books , the theatre list he set up as a part of Walker Books in 1988 which joined Random House in 1990 . |
| 15 | As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition . |
| 16 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 17 | He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal . |
| 18 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 19 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 20 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 21 | He set out with an army across the Border . |
| 22 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 23 | He set off at a brisk walk . |
| 24 | He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled . |
| 25 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 26 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 27 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 28 | Immediately afterwards , he set off on a journey into Dorset , determined to repay Wordsworth 's visit of two months earlier . |
| 29 | He set off on a ‘ Grand Tour ’ of Europe , following directions and advice from his friend Andrew Balfour ( later published posthumously as Letters to a Friend ) . |
| 30 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |