Example sentences of "[pron] had set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion James Gilbey , then working for a car rental company in Victoria , woke to find his prize Alfa Romeo car covered in eggs and flour which had set like concrete . |
| 2 | First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] . |
| 3 | She had set to with a will , but had been dismayed to discover that her appetite did not match it . |
| 4 | As I walked around that charming town , I undertook the task of solving the puzzle she had set for me . |
| 5 | He did not see the trap she had set for him . |
| 6 | And furthermnore , as O'Keeffe continued the direction she had set for her art in 1923 , various critics accentuated their assessments of her work with words such as ‘ courageous ’ , ‘ imaginative ’ , ‘ introspective ’ , and ‘ original ’ — all having traditionally ‘ masculine ’ connotations . |
| 7 | Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves . |
| 8 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 9 | They had set upon the turnkey , knocking him unconscious , and then gathering his keys , made for the gate . |
| 10 | But the NEC said that all the associations had performed poorly in relation to the criteria it had set for them . |
| 11 | Then he had set to work himself , though rather clumsily , he was still weak from his illness . |
| 12 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 13 | Haled in to help salvage the church 's treasures , he had set to and done whatever was asked of him without curiosity , but there was nothing amiss with his sharp and assured memory , once he understood what was being asked of him . |
| 14 | Cotton 's greatest interest for the rest of his life was to help young professionals follow and benefit from the high standards he had set for himself . |
| 15 | He reassured everyone that it would make no difference to the course he had set for himself . |
| 16 | Urgency went from his wing-beats , the course he had set from the Park so many weeks before now weakened and drifted . |
| 17 | When they went after something nothing made them waver , just as he had set after her . |