Example sentences of "[conj] he set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storr 's agreement with Rundell 's terminated on 18 February 1819 , by which time he had already found suitable workshops in Harrison Street , Gray 's Inn Road , where he set up once more as an independent manufacturer . |
| 2 | no , not yet , I 've seen the beginning where he set up the and that |
| 3 | If he is an experienced gardener , you have to make sure that he sets himself achievable targets , and does not become over-ambitious . |
| 4 | Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with . |
| 5 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 6 | Paul knew that his plans were in God 's hands , and that certainty comes across very clearly in the way that he sets out his desire to go forward for Jesus . |
| 7 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 8 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 9 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
| 10 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 11 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 12 | It will certainly not allow the Chancellor to meet the target that he set himself last year of a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 13 | It was against self-will and worldly desires that he set his face ; and these could only be overcome by personal conversion . |
| 14 | It was on this basis that he set about creating a new monastic life with all the force and organizational ability which he possessed . |
| 15 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 16 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |
| 17 | I have much sympathy with the aims that he set out . |
| 18 | erm A loyal friend , as well as an extremely amusing one , he seems to me to have lived remarkably well up to the standards that he set himself . |
| 19 | No sooner was he back amongst his own patients than he set about exchanging the dressings applied by Dr McNab , even though they were in most cases identical to his own . |
| 20 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 21 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |
| 22 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 23 | But some doubted and one , Rol , who was a great war leader , mistrusted the feelings which prompted the Myrcans to wage war and was sickened by the killing , so he set off into the mountains to seek the Dwarves and avail himself of their ancient wisdom . |
| 24 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 25 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
| 26 | In May last year he broke into the family 's him in Cheltenham , but he found nothing he wanted , so he set the house on fire . |
| 27 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
| 28 | Once he set eyes on Albert , he knew that the old man was very sick indeed . |
| 29 | His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . |
| 30 | Alan Walker argues that the income of retired people must be raised and he sets out a series of specific measures to : |