Example sentences of "[noun sg] had set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the actual owners of the horses , disbelief had set in the quickest . |
| 2 | Winter had set in truly now . |
| 3 | Her eye backtracked the almost circular route Lori had set through the Caribbean , the southern USA and Mexico . |
| 4 | this was the day that members of our group had set for a sponsored walk , the length of the old Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 5 | The rain had set in steadily by the time Ruth got home . |
| 6 | It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life . |
| 7 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |
| 8 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 9 | In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the ‘ New Draperies ’ , but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia ; indeed , in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which , even as early as 1523 , had shown signs of instability : it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring 's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable , and the winding up of his affairs can not but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow . |
| 10 | This meeting had taken place about two weeks ago ; two weeks of frustration and boredom rubbing away at the monkey 's sanity , its only hope to keep concentrating ; to put all its energy into finishing the task the computer had set for it ; another four , maybe five hours of programming . |
| 11 | As more and more stone-filled gabions were built in to reduce the erosion which the scheme had set in train , it became apparent that Pandora 's box had been opened , and that what might have worked as a piece of traditional river canalization in the cohesive sediments found downstream had proved a recipe for disaster when applied in the unstable gravels of this upland brook . |
| 12 | and what your dad had set for , for all this and |
| 13 | The older woman 's face had set into a white mask . |