Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set limits by saying that the farmer only had straight and right-angled brackets with which to join the fences . |
| 2 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 3 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 4 | The moment I set foot in this house , my world turned upside down . |
| 5 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 6 | I set traps for you , and you seemed to fall into them — that is , you reacted as I longed for you to react , but you were n't supposed to react at all because you were n't supposed to feel anything for me ! |
| 7 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 8 | What would you do if I set fire to the new , to the shirt ? |
| 9 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 10 | ‘ From the moment I set eyes on you I have n't been able to think of anything else . |
| 11 | From the first moment I set eyes on Frankenstein , at the hotel in Sècheron , I had the impression of a man with a burdensome secret . |
| 12 | You were mine — I knew that as soon as I set eyes on you . |
| 13 | But as soon as I set eyes on you all rational thought deserted me . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted her the minute I set eyes on her . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Would it be easier to accept help , Fran , if I set terms of payment ? |
| 16 | You set recalculation to manual , first . |
| 17 | You set recalculation to manual , do the file from my own copy and then use range value to remove formulae So that 's the file combining method . |
| 18 | You set Vinnie on me to get us out the house . |
| 19 | It is vital that you set limits for the amount of money that you will deposit with each bank . |
| 20 | When you set fire to it , it burns and explodes immediately , with a noise louder than thunder . |
| 21 | ‘ If you set fire to Barbs 's back garden , people 're going to notice . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll notice if you set fire to her house too , ’ said Camille . |
| 23 | ‘ You set standards for yourself that a paragon could only reach for . |
| 24 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 25 | Then you make a double-bogey on the 1st , so you set par as a target . |
| 26 | ‘ But almost from the day we set foot in our new house our relationship changed . |
| 27 | Then , confident that we had n't missed many , we set course for the larger island of Whalsay . |
| 28 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 29 | ‘ We set fire to it , ’ said the visitor , anxious to make some kind of philosophical statement . |
| 30 | ‘ They were just about the only times we set eyes on them , ’ she went on . |