Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 2 | How and where you set up your Storage Directories is entirely a matter of personal preference ( and system restrictions ! ) , but we would make two VERY strong recommendations , as follows : |
| 3 | Or we set out to take it there . |
| 4 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 5 | The significant event is the landing of Goodbody 's patrol behind enemy lines in North Africa , where they set up an ‘ advanced-area cricket pitch ’ , for the purpose of ‘ morale ’ and to impress a visiting military VIP as ‘ a small patch of sanity ’ . |
| 6 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 7 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 8 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 9 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 10 | It was for a number of reasons , apart from a wish to escape from teaching , that I set out some weeks later for Libya , then a country almost entirely unknown . |
| 11 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 12 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 13 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 14 | I was instructed to leave my prejudices behind and simply concentrate on having a good time , so I set off with that one idea in mind . |
| 15 | A path is supposed to keep close by the river ( but in reality stays above the treeline ) so I set off up quite a marked track , which very soon petered out . |
| 16 | Although the house in which Eric was now hidden was an isolated one , we could n't exclude the possibility of a German search , so I set off there on my bicycle while the Germans were still questioning people . |
| 17 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 18 | Idomeneo was not an opera which I know analytically , so I set about studying its overall character and moods , as well as its tonal plan and shape/form . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew I was in a race against time so I set about altering the gear box myself . |
| 20 | ‘ Ignorance is no defence if anything should go wrong , so I set out to ensure managers are more aware of the broad outlines of the position . ’ |
| 21 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 22 | Each form that you set up within Dataease is a database file . |
| 23 | This is analogous to a script language or batch file , in that you set up a file transfer transaction which can be repeated every day , short-cutting the need to highlight and copy individual files . |
| 24 | IDE drives are intelligent , that is provided that you set up the CMOS to show the new drives capacity you do n't have to worry about drive type . |
| 25 | It 's , it 's , it 's , it 's a committee that you set up , the Restructuring Working Group that that your department set up . |
| 26 | It was in the mid-1960s that you set up your first gallery . |
| 27 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 28 | We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion . |
| 29 | the board that you set out the Lego on , you could run those on that . |
| 30 | ‘ So you set about curing yourself at my expense ? ’ |