Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 2 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 3 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 4 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 5 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 6 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 7 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 8 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 9 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 10 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 11 | The men on board the ‘ Firefly , ’ a 25-foot catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 12 | The men aboard Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 13 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |