Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] set [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |
| 2 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 3 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 4 | She had set down the candle . |
| 5 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 6 | On arrival Rick and I walked around the lake and chose two likely looking swims towards the bottom end near the dam where we proceeded to set up the carp rods . |
| 7 | When we left to set up the course the total had crept up to about 30 . |
| 8 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 9 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 10 | They included setting aside the whole or part of any obligation imposed on a debtor , requiring the creditor to repay the whole or part of any sum paid under the credit bargain , direct the return to the surety of any property provided for security , altering the terms of the credit agreement . |
| 11 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 12 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | The paper indignantly rejected charges that it had set up the case which had , it seemed then , consigned Jagger and Richard to jail , but outrage at the sentences had touched liberal consciences , and galvanized youth inhabiting that grey area between music and social protest . |
| 14 | Though his yelling had not moved the stones it had set off the dogs and one against the other they barked and bayed , an unusual salute as he entered the bounds of the sheer-sided , heavy-wooded , spectacular wilderness . |
| 15 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 16 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 17 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |