Example sentences of "[pers pn] set a " in BNC.
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1 | I next ran at Oslo where I set a personal best for 200 metres , so that was encouraging . |
2 | ‘ While you were following your own pursuits this morning , I set a few more wheels in motion . |
3 | ‘ Señorita , I was expecting you — see , I set a place . |
4 | Before she went to Navron she told Harry she felt like the well fed birds that could only fly about in their cage , but ‘ one day I set a linnet free which flew straight out of my hand towards the sun . ’ |
5 | ‘ I set an alarm . |
6 | Last year I set an agenda which said that ’ we needed eighteen months to get in shape for the eventual economic upturn ’ . |
7 | The Pacer allows you to set a bleeper in five beat increments , ie , if you are 36 between 130 and 160 . |
8 | But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive . |
9 | You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on . |
10 | So long as you set a limit to the essay you will have confidence and control . |
11 | As soon as you set a limit to your endurance , you are lost . |
12 | The DIP switches are concerned mainly with monitor type — you set a block of three of the six switches to indicate the maximum resolution your monitor is capable of — and whether or not you will want to use the 32k colour modes ( and you will , believe me ! ) |
13 | CATHERINE You set a valuation on things too , do you ? |
14 | Er have you set a sum |
15 | Right , so , when you set a standard , is that to one person or for everybody ? |
16 | Unless you set a time or something . |
17 | And I mean , if you set a list to do something for a day Yeah . |
18 | You set a blurb or something in proper Caledonia and then in Neue-Caledonia and it hits you that the Neue-Caledonia has gone all sort of thin and sharp and it 's the perfection of that shape there and the old one sort of boings about a bit and looks happy on the page . |
19 | If you set an area outside which you can not sail then tag one another by doing a tack or a gybe around them , it can turn into a very good game where you can build up your own tactics . |
20 | Even if she sets a track record she would already have been upstaged by the people 's champion . |
21 | She sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household , family and friends . |
22 | But she sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household , family and friends . |
23 | In her sleep she sets an easel facing |
24 | How would students react to you setting a pass mark of say 80% ? |
25 | At once she set a tone that would not be easily wrested from her . |
26 | After those championships she has her sights set on a more demanding six-day track event in Australia ; she set a world best for 538 miles at the equivalent event in 1990 . |
27 | She set a new women 's record for the Twostar in 1986 when she came 2nd in class with Kitty Hampton in Sony Handicam ( ex Ntombifuti ) and in 1987 completed the AZAB in Quixote . |
28 | In 1923 she set a British ladies ' record for Thames swimming ( 10 hrs. 45 min . ) . |
29 | She set a hand on one huge shoulder . |
30 | She set a match to them and they smouldered economically . |