Example sentences of "[pron] had 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 | She had set down the candle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 9 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 10 | 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 . |