Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set her the first day to clean the floors starting at the top and expecting her to reach the bottom at the end of the day or at least the last floor , but Ellen she had not managed more than two rooms in eight hours and those not well done . |
| 2 | We thought it would be a good idea to give them a chance straight off to have an opinion , and we set them a nice problem , which was that they put a marble into something and another marble comes out thirty seconds later . |
| 3 | Not only was he engaged in his publishing work , his meetings of the Moot and the Chandos Group , and his visits to Oxford for the Christian News Letter , but also he set himself a punishing schedule of conferences , talks and lectures ; in the first week of January 1941 , for example , there were six full days of such conferences . |
| 4 | So he set himself an exercise . |
| 5 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 6 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |
| 7 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 8 | Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order . |
| 9 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |