Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I next ran at Oslo where I set a personal best for 200 metres , so that was encouraging .
2 ‘ While you were following your own pursuits this morning , I set a few more wheels in motion .
3 I set the lower limit to 50bpm and willed my resting pulse to go down till the bleeper sounded , by which time I was breathing deeply and totally relaxed .
4 Then go upstairs , while I set the necessary wheels in motion , and wait for me . "
5 But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive .
6 You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on .
7 If you set the right standards and she knows that she ca n't fool you , you 'll be all right .
8 Michael Heseltine ( 1987 , p. 138 ) has since claimed that ‘ we set a new objective : to make the inner cities places where people would want to live and work and where the private investor would be willing to put his money ’ .
9 When we built J7 HPC , we set the rear anti-roll bar to give mild oversteer — an attitude it adopts readily .
10 They set a marvellous example indeed .
11 Their arrest came only days after they set a new world record for cycling at altitude across the Himalayas .
12 Make sure managers and supervisors are familiar with the policy and procedures , and make sure too that they set a good example to the staff they supervise .
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