Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set yourself an objective and then use your listening session to achieve it . |
| 2 | In preparing for his reconnaissance of Rhodes , the Commander had set himself an exacting routine of training , with long-distance swimming and other exercises hardening his physical endurance : habits of training his men would later find exhausting almost to the point of mutiny . |
| 3 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 4 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 5 | So he set himself an exercise . |
| 6 | THE NEW Health Secretary , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , set herself an ambitious target yesterday — to ‘ take the politics ’ out of the National Health Service . |