Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 2 | The government has set out in the Patient 's Charter the principles on which the NHS is based . |
| 3 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 4 | Thirteen ships , led by two of Earl Siward 's , continued north past the estuary and were last seen setting round for the mouth of the Tay . |
| 5 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 6 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 7 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 8 | My husband and daughter decide to set off up the hill ‘ to look for America ’ . |
| 9 | On the other hand , the new kind of assignment resembles the equitable assignment in being subject to equities , i.e. to claims or defences which the debtor or other person might have set up against the assignor . |
| 10 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 11 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 12 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 13 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 14 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 15 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 16 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 17 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 18 | You need to set down at the start what you expect to achieve . |
| 19 | Although he showed particular fondness for Jessie , John certainly was not generous to the couple when after the war her husband wanted to set up in the textile business in Newcastle . |
| 20 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 21 | The Vimy was constructed on February 13 , it was No 13 of the batch , the Vickers crew numbered 13 , the Vimy reached Newfoundland on May 26 ( twice 13 ) , Jack arrived in Newfoundland on May 13 , and because 13 was lucky to him Jack wanted to set off on the attempt on June 13 . |
| 22 | The lion 's share of Singapore 's exports is produced by the 3,000-odd foreign companies that have set up on the island . |
| 23 | Since then , 110 enterprises have set up in the centre 's offices , retail outlets and workshops . |
| 24 | There should be some recognition of the fact that the programmes that the Government have set up in the network of jobcentres , including restart , job clubs , job interview guarantees and all the programmes that they deliver through jobcentres or training and enterprise councils , help to alleviate the misery that comes with loss of employment . |
| 25 | A TRIO of Cleveland pensioners have set off on the trip of a lifetime to the bulbfields of Holland . |
| 26 | If one thinks dialectically , so Hegel believed , it was possible , for the it was possible , he had done it , it 's set out in the Encyclopedia , his Encyclopedia , to see the whole system of reality as one articulated , logical system in which everything has its orderly and appointed place . |