Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 2 | There were nineteenth century memoirs and occasionally they were quite revealing but it 's Lloyd George 's memoirs of the Great War , the First World War that set in many ways the modern pattern for old battles to be re-fought . |
| 3 | Whenever Layton had a promotional tour or appearance , a poetry reading or a workshop ( poetry-reading in Canada predated Ginsberg 's sensation with Howl that set in motion the ‘ beat-poetry ’ style , despite Scobie arguing it as an influence on Leonard 's background ) , he would take Leonard along , acquaint him with the nuts and bolts of the business and get him to read some of his own poetry . |
| 4 | Cos I nearly thought to myself shall I have a wash and set for Christmas . |
| 5 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 6 | So , Emily , I shirk my task and set as foreword to your autobiography these lines : |