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 . |