Example sentences of "[verb] to set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The right type of facilities need to be built in the area before companies can be attracted to set up in business . |
| 4 | Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 5 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Livewire helps young people aged 16–25 who want to set up in business . |
| 7 | In the meantime , if you want to set off with road map and cheque book , then get the new editions of the Factory Shop Guide . |
| 8 | I purpose , therefore , to wage war myself in Wales , and I intend to set out from Lichfield on — let me see , this is the twenty-fourth of June — on the seventh day of July . |
| 9 | I think the department of Health was swayed rather more than it should have been by that lobby , because the sort of service that was intended to set up in Camberwell has not yet been set up . |
| 10 | Gerald plans to set off on his trip in December . |
| 11 | Little did Jean realise it , as she prepared to set off to church at Caterham , Surrey , for the funeral of her lifetime partner and soulmate , but the first clue to his free-spending secret life had plopped through the letterbox that very morning . |
| 12 | I have spent quite some time considering the best format for the book and , after much deliberation , have decided to set out in bold type the precedents clause by clause interspersed with my own comments , followed , once again in bold type , by my suggested amendments to the particular parts of the precedents , where those amendments are not readily identifiable from my comments in the text . |
| 13 | On this typical page of shooting script are given the essential directions needed to set up for each shot in a sequence . |
| 14 | I 'm going to set up on my own — put my plate up . ’ |
| 15 | I have a four foot tank which I was going to set up for Malawis , however , with the above in mind , what would you consider the best course of action : |
| 16 | He was going to set up in London . |
| 17 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 18 | When the development was first announced in 1990 , senior Motorola managers spoke of the company 's policy of encouraging its global suppliers to establish local operations alongside its manufacturing plants , and said they hoped that some suppliers might be persuaded to set up in Scotland . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 21 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 24 | Stork was attracted to the idea of headhunting , but less to the idea of working for GKR , so he decided to set up on his own , working at both headhunting and marketing consulting . |
| 25 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 26 | After only four months at home , Leopold decided to set out on another , longer tour , this time to Paris and London . |
| 27 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 28 | Little for that matter did I believe that this experience was to be the start of a whole new direction in my life , the lessons of which I have attempted to set out in this book . |
| 29 | This however proved to be the catalyst that Bowran needed to set up on his own . |
| 30 | She and Ella had plenty of time before they needed to set off for school . |