Example sentences of "[noun pl] and set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 2 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 3 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 4 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 5 | He put on his sandals and set out for the office of the babu who had the power to give his people what they wanted , or to refuse . |
| 6 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 7 | So we gritted our teeth and set off along the Pyg-motorway past the army 's blasted and unforgivable folly , writhing and frothing and swearing and laughing aghast — the vapours thickening the while , so that when we looked down from Bwlch Moch , Llydaw was rimless , leaden obscurity and our hair mist-beaded like grizzled Rastafarians . |
| 8 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |
| 9 | Only he had watched , fascinated , as the pool of blood collecting around the spilt innards suddenly burst its confines and set off down the road , finding its way slowly and with difficulty , its bright fresh surface soon matted with dust and drowning insects . |
| 10 | When the sun began to sink and the evening grew cold , they stripped their clothes from the thorn trees , collected together their pans and bamboo brooms and set out across the bridge for home . |
| 11 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
| 12 | We put on our képis , straightened our ties , pulled our fingers into regulation gloves and set off for the guardhouse . |
| 13 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
| 14 | So the next morning at dawn the poor wife took her baby in her arms and set out along the shore . |
| 15 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 16 | Randolph , smiling from ear to ear , quickly dressed into warm clothes and set out towards the toy factory . |
| 17 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 18 | In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York . |