Example sentences of "[pron] had set [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 2 | It was the fulfilment of another personal goal I had set myself . |
| 3 | There is no space to detail further the model that I used to pursue the problem that I had set myself . |
| 4 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 5 | Glamorous food was a challenge she had set herself and won . |
| 6 | She was watching him intently , as if to solve some riddle she had set herself . |
| 7 | The bell for Compline rang , the time she had set herself for hounding him out at the wicket , into a world he was , perhaps , already beginning to regret surrendering , but which he might have found none too hospitable to a runaway Benedictine novice . |
| 8 | When the taxi emerged from a tunnel beneath the East River amidst Manhattan 's towering walls of glass , she suddenly felt unequal to the task she had set herself . |
| 9 | Charlotte 's response to her discovery had been so instinctive , and the action it had prompted her to take so urgent , that it was not until late afternoon , aboard a train drawing ever closer to Paris , that she began to consider the difficulties and possible consequences of the task she had set herself . |
| 10 | With an empire of such a size , it was a difficult but not impossible task she had set herself . |
| 11 | One way or the other , the task she had set herself was not going to be easy ! |
| 12 | She thought of all the wretched women in the East End , and aye , in the West End too , not excluding her own maltreated self , and thought that at whatever cost she would carry out the task she had set herself — to find out how the under-privileged lived , and to strike a blow for suffering womanhood while she did so . |
| 13 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 14 | The job was important to her ; it had been the goal she had set herself after her father died so tragically ten years ago when she was seventeen . |
| 15 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 16 | They had set themselves a pace that could not survive 90 minutes and , sure enough , began to sag . |
| 17 | It was perhaps precisely because both sovereigns were well aware of the criticisms which might be made of their Court that in order to fulfil their public roles in accordance with the aims which they had set themselves , they worked to make of it a thing of great splendour . |
| 18 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 19 | In retirement he had set himself the task of making a replica Tomkin long-case clock . |
| 20 | During his first term in office Macmillan had achieved the three objectives that he had set himself when he took over from Eden in 1957 . |
| 21 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 22 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 23 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 24 | Ten years , he had set himself , to running a Field Office . |
| 25 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |
| 26 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 27 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 28 | In addition , although the deputy head was clearly exhausted by the enormity of the task he had set himself , he had found the experience sufficiently valuable to recommend that all teachers should extend their understanding of curriculum evaluation and develop skills in addition to the testing of pupil outcomes . |
| 29 | Given the very high target he had set himself , he managed to achieve most of his objectives , conveying to the audience the complexity of his subject , and the reasons for its interest . |