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 .
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