Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] set [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 2 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 3 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 4 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 5 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |