Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , excited , and wondering what surprise her brother could conceivably have arranged , she set off with Sam in the britzka for Trouville . |
| 2 | After a fruitless meeting set up at Jeddah in the hope of reconciling their differences and some display of nervousness by the oil market , Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait on 2 August , occupying the capital and prompting the Amir , Shaikh Jaber , to seek refuge in Saudi Arabia . |
| 3 | It is said to be thinking of appointing a special envoy to the interim government set up in February in the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 4 | A dresser holds a collection of old tins that once contained pills for headaches , stomach and liver ailments , concocted by Tim 's great-grandfather , a manufacturing chemist who set up in business in the 1880s . |
| 5 | He set up in practice in the copper-mining town of Hettstedt but soon discovered that he was out of sympathy with the barbaric medical practices of his time which often showed little compassion for , or understanding of , the patient . |
| 6 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 7 | Gardening owed much to these cooperative captains ; the two mentioned above faithfully observed Miller 's directions for the transport of plants , set out at length in the Dictionary . |