Example sentences of "[verb] set in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 2 | And for the mass of the petty bourgeoisie , which had from the beginning provided a backbone of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the period when , materially , the Third Reich turned to unmitigated disaster only seems to have set in from 1942 onwards . |
| 3 | However , a touch of decadence appeared to have set in by then , in that the tough space bar of Star Wars ( universally recognized as a genre reference to saloon bars in Westerns where it was unwise to order sarsaparilla ) had given way to the court of Jabba the Hutt , full of twitching , pulsating creatures in perpetual motion but lacking menace or much humour . |
| 4 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 5 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 6 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 7 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 8 | General bewilderment had set in by this year 's quarter-final stage , by which point most of the big names — Toulouse , Racing , Agen , Narbonne and Béziers — had fallen by the wayside . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I got wet again , as the rain had set in in stair-rods . |