Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air . |
| 2 | I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment . |
| 3 | She set up a bedside vigil , had special drugs imported from Germany , played him his favourite music and discouraged everyone else from visiting , including his own children . |
| 4 | She set up a fundamental review of the way the NHS was financed and organised . |
| 5 | Therefore , in 1905 , she set up a British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation , and soon , with the help of volunteer translators , was bringing out an English edition of its French and German Bulletin . |
| 6 | In 1932 she set up a facility at the Settlement Hall in Newport Road , teaching children basic skills , walking , and speech therapy . |
| 7 | A SNAKE handler who set up a group to dispel people 's fear of the reptiles was killed by a bite from his Egyptian cobra . |
| 8 | The restoration has been further financed by a subsidy of DFl.130,000 ( £40,625 ; $70,684 ) from the Ministry of Culture as well as by contributions from the owners of the villas who set up a foundation specifically for the purpose . |
| 9 | Among them was an American , John Longyear , who set up a mining operation on the shores of Isfjorden . |
| 10 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 11 | When that right was withdrawn by Cromwell , who set up a licensing system for books and newspapers , the poet Milton uttered his immortal cry for press freedom , the " Areopagitica " : " Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature . |
| 12 | A milkman who set up a round in competition with his old dairy firm has won a legal battle to continue his business for the time being . |
| 13 | Anarchy on a smaller scale is provided by photographer Kurt Buchwald who set up a ‘ Photography Forbidden ’ sign in front of innocuous subjects and then took photographs to see what happened . |
| 14 | That could well be the motto of Miss Pam Bosworth , who set up a hat hire business because her friends kept borrowing from her wardrobe . |
| 15 | Security forces in Northern Ireland are hunting a woman in black who set up a U D R soldier for murder at the garage where he worked . |
| 16 | Cheshire Fire Brigade who set up an emergency operation centre on site said the cloud had been taken by the prevailing wind east of Northwich . |
| 17 | One , we set up a w er er a working group which has brought together that consultation addressed that consultation argument and I would point out that Mr amendment er does clearly enshrine that as obviously something which is now seen as useful , er and I think that 's important . |
| 18 | Erm , we set up an investment panel of the erm , the executive committee to specifically to look in detail at our investment policy , in the light of resolution four at the nineteen eighty-seven A G M. We 've met with our investment advisors on several occasions , and we have considered our in , investment policy in some detail . |
| 19 | Having said that , erm we we discussed these matters er in early nine nineteen ninety one at officer level , we set out a out a long letter setting out our concerns er in December nineteen ninety one . |
| 20 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 21 | Erm and so they set up a team erm four or five teams within the city , er which included Radford , the Crabtree Meadows area , erm and Bestwood area |
| 22 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 23 | And while she drew , one of the many voices inside her set up a repeated chant , ‘ What should I do ? |
| 24 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 25 | He set up a hat-trick of tries for Spiller , one a beauty which originated with his devastating break from deep within his own half . |
| 26 | Fothergill was a doctor and in 1740 he set up a practice in White Hart Street very near the Collinson establishment and flowers from Peckham might well have adorned yet another house in the City . |
| 27 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 28 | On the contrary , at government expense , he set up a Kyoto institute of nationalist historical anthropology to demonstrate the spiritual civilization that supposedly provides the source of the modern Japanese . |
| 29 | There he set up a small photographic portrait business , and made some early forays into recording ethnic ‘ types ’ and customs . |
| 30 | After leaving university he set up a roadying business on the government 's Enterprise Allowance Scheme . |