Example sentences of "[noun] and set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A man must take up his pilgrim 's staff and set out on the farthest journey of all towards the very horizons of thought and dwell there always . |
| 32 | We put on our képis , straightened our ties , pulled our fingers into regulation gloves and set off for the guardhouse . |
| 33 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
| 34 | So the next morning at dawn the poor wife took her baby in her arms and set out along the shore . |
| 35 | I parked my car at around midday and set out towards the Press tent . |
| 36 | After a great struggle , I frog-marched her into oilskins and over-trousers , fitted the outboard and set off up the loch , perspiring . |
| 37 | Its audience was familiar with the statue which Charlemagne had brought from Italy and set up in the courtyard at Aachen . |
| 38 | When he had gone , Arty , smiling to himself at what he considered a victory , got out of bed and set off for the bathroom to wash his hair . |
| 39 | And Nyasha and all her family and everybody from the village made a long long line and set off through the forest . |
| 40 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 41 | Randolph , smiling from ear to ear , quickly dressed into warm clothes and set out towards the toy factory . |
| 42 | At two o'clock Wycliffe collected the dead man 's keys from the duty officer and set out along the wharf . |
| 43 | Dare to dream , shrug off any criticism or doubt and set off on the journey that you hope will eventually take you to a better world . |
| 44 | I was now hot so we filled our water bottle and set off up the track towards to skyline . |
| 45 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 46 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |
| 47 | The houses were spacious , detached , each one built to an individual design and set back from the road in well-kept gardens : it was the posh part of town . |
| 48 | In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York . |
| 49 | Within six months , however , he had left the Party and set out on the road that led to the formation of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 . |
| 50 | The 1958 Cadillac Eldorado swept out from the garage and set off down the road from Cromcruach . |