Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , then , should the researcher look for in the settlements in his area , and how should he set about analysing what he finds ? |
| 2 | Never at any time in his career did he set out solely to defend . |
| 3 | Why was he set up ? ’ |
| 4 | No sooner had he set up these new procedures than Coleman was summoned to the American Embassy in Nicosia by the Department of Defense attaché , Col. John Sasser , to whom he had reported on leaving Beirut as a CBN ‘ refugee ’ a few months earlier . |
| 5 | Had Pardy , in a nutshell , just been carried away and thoughtless — which might result in a lesser charge — or had he set out to harm Harriet with such deadly results that this might even finish up as a trial for manslaughter ? |
| 6 | Before the table Edward Hussey stood hunched in defensive composure , very plainly dressed — had he set out to demonstrate the modesty of his means ? — and with his countenance fixed in an expression of resigned and dutiful benevolence . |
| 7 | He sets up long , colourful and emotional speeches that are in turn both funny , beautiful and violent , and his work can not be compared with anything that has preceded him . |
| 8 | He sets up poetry , rhetoric , and textuality , as against the myth of presence , the poem as the life-blood of a master spirit , and the Romantic ideal of expressiveness . |
| 9 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |
| 10 | Chops the dwarf takes lodgings here when he ‘ goes into society ’ , CS 11 : so does Montague Tigg when he sets up his fraudulent insurance company , MC 27 ; Twemlow , seated in the window of his club , is ‘ respectfully contemplated by Pall Mall ’ , OMF ii 3 . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |
| 12 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 13 | No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead . |
| 14 | It is unfortunate that the considerate father who aims to prevent his daughter becoming the victim of a faithless fortune-hunter or the testator eager that his possessions should not fall into the hands of his widow 's second husband rather than his own children should find that the trust he sets up may well bear double liability to tax , both when the funds are settled in trust and when they are paid out . |
| 15 | He sets up a fair few goals but we really need a finisher something Wallace managed to do ( if you gave him enough chances in the game ) . |
| 16 | It follows , in my opinion , that the servant may , whilst in the employment of the master , be as agreeable , attentive , and skilful as it is in his power to be to others with the ultimate view of obtaining the benefit of the customers ' friendly feelings when he calls upon them if and when he sets up business for himself . |
| 17 | And so he sets off on foot , aiming nowhere . |
| 18 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
| 19 | It is a three-day journey to the land of Moriah , yet he cuts the wood for Isaac 's funeral pyre before he sets off , and takes it all the way with him . |
| 20 | But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm . |
| 21 | When even the milkmen and the postmen are not on the streets , he sets off for his daily three hour run , then swims for an hour before finally starting his day 's work as a leather goods salesman . |
| 22 | Quick thinking on the part of the father will soon have him sprinting after the runaway , and similarly quick thinking on the part of the camera operator will result in a cut from the distant child to one of the rescuer as he sets off . |
| 23 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 24 | With a helping hand from Sister Jacqui Littlewood , he sets off on a ‘ police ’ trolley bike for a minor op . |
| 25 | but only for a second as he sets off |
| 26 | He sets off after the brothers , succeeds in imitating Haimet , and relieves Barat of his burden . |
| 27 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 28 | See I hoped wi David to ring me before half past three before he sets off , and he has n't done yet . |
| 29 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 30 | He sets down some , though not all , of the medical criteria for determining sex , and resolves that these criteria , while relevant , ‘ do not necessarily decide the legal basis of sex determination ’ . |