Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Each time he scrambled out , took a short rest , and set out again for the next refuge .
2 Instantly he did a lightning U-turn and set out back to the stables , leaving Perdita swearing on the stone-hard ground while all the onlookers roared with laughter and Alejandro shouted in broken English at her .
3 We finished serving lunch and coffee and cleared up , and as soon as I decently could I left the kitchen and set off forward up the train .
4 Then they form up into single file with as many as fifty in a column , each animal touching the rear end of the one ahead with its stick-like antennae , and set off briskly across the sandy sea floor , heading for deeper water .
5 The guide nodded and set off briskly across the floor .
6 She turned from the shop-window and set off briskly down the street towards the Stefansplatz , Karelius striding alongside .
7 Fearon dragged it on over his sweater , tugged a disreputable flat cap over his wet hair and set off briskly towards the yard .
8 At the Grand , David Swan fastened his amended photopass to his jacket and set off briskly towards the conference centre some two hundred yards away .
9 Next day they left Seton to his problems and set off northwards up the coast for Dunbar , thirty miles .
10 The waiter gave the slightest of bows , turned and set off back to the café .
11 When I opened my eyes , it had got colder , so I stood up , brushed off my blazer and set off back to the Gendarmerie .
12 She stopped for a moment to brush the dust from her hands and clothes and set off back to the house .
13 ‘ I 'll be as quick as I can , ’ he said to Bernice and set off back down the passageway with Rosheen .
14 After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck .
15 With a half-shudder , she left the lower bowel and set off gingerly along the rather treacherous surface of the greater intestine which coiled before her — a tunnel she was n't too sure she saw the light at the end of .
16 With that he relaxed his grasp and set off alone in the direction of the Chelonians .
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