Example sentences of "set [adv] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool City Council set aside £821,300 for the service based on the previous year 's charges . |
| 2 | The government set up Committees for the Defence of the Republic . |
| 3 | Now we never set up questions on the show — we 'll discuss areas that we might go into , but we never say , ‘ You say this to me , and then I 'll say that to you ’ , it just does n't work like that . |
| 4 | On June 4 Soviet troops surrounded the parliament building in Vilnius and set up checkpoints in the city , raising fears of a forced takeover . |
| 5 | The Mondays , with girlfriends , wives and kids in tow , eventually decided on Blue Wave , Eddy Grant 's studio in Barbados , set up shack in the middle of a sugar plantation miles away from anywhere , and immediately established a mutual rapport and respect with Frantz and Weymouth . |
| 6 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 7 | They were the first national employees to receive service awards in Colombia , as it is five years since LASMO set up business in the country . |
| 8 | Among the other famous names who set up hostels for the Kindertransporte was Harry Jacobs , the head of Times Furnishing . |
| 9 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 10 | Son of Gifford Tate , the painter , he had been the Garlands ' doctor since , at his father 's death , he had returned to Falmouth and set up practice in the family house . |
| 11 | Er you have er a substantial er appendix within your er agenda papers which set out proposals from the building 's policy panel which would help you to deal with some of those issues . |