Example sentences of "[pron] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone is short of cash , and nobody set on the goal of having a station could argue with the idea of combining the efforts . |
| 2 | Muttering beneath her breath she set to the preparation of the tall boy 's breakfast . |
| 3 | So you nip down to the shop , hand over six quid or so with bad grace , choose — somehow — one set from the enormous and multicoloured collection on offer , zoom home and spend a happy ten minutes snipping , cranking and generally trying to avoid poking your eye out . |
| 4 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're in that early-evening soap opera , are n't you — the one set in a hospital ? ’ |
| 6 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 7 | So the dual role of any human being as a producer and consumer is torn apart , with one set against the other . |
| 8 | They set on a big conveyor belt . |
| 9 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 10 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 11 | He usually came in the middle of the day , pushing something ahead of him which he set by the side of the benches before taking some food out of a box . |
| 12 | JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe . |
| 13 | It set as a target the ownership and operation of six such restaurants in the Cheshire area by the end of 1988 . |
| 14 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |