Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Firstly I set up a still-life — say a bottle , vase and fruit — classic objects . |
| 2 | Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod . |
| 3 | Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham . |
| 4 | About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids . |
| 5 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 6 | So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe . |
| 7 | I set up a great screaming to attract his attention . |
| 8 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 9 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 10 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 11 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 12 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 13 | I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot . |
| 14 | I set out a position which argues that there may be too much and also too little evidence for the existence of God to make religious belief a tenable option . |
| 15 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 16 | It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning . |
| 17 | I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet . |
| 18 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 19 | I set out the failed supper . |
| 20 | I set out the Government 's objectives in a speech in this House before I went to Maastricht . |
| 21 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 22 | Briefed comprehensively by my fastidious fiancee on ironing strategy — ‘ Never start from the front/make sure you give the cuffs a decent jet of steam … not like that , you chump ! ’ — I set about a pile of shirts , mainly cotton but one silk , and a range of trousers . |
| 23 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 24 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 25 | With no option but courage or ignominious retreat , I set about the 4a first pitch — an intimidating looking crack breaking through the overhanging lower wall . |
| 26 | Reality says that if you set up a store and you 're undercapitalised , you 're going to go bust . |
| 27 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 28 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 29 | Foucault 's genealogy means that by asking a question , posing a problem , you set up a generality against which you constitute events and arrange them in a series . |
| 30 | You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble . |