Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Will had disappeared from sight , Hari set to work on the slippers once more , they must be just so because Emily Grenfell was a good customer if a very exacting one . |
| 2 | Gazza set for return |
| 3 | Mrs Barnes set to work immediately and , a few minutes later , the child was born . |
| 4 | Laura was quite happy to let Deborah set in motion her improvements and chivvied her on . |
| 5 | Only in one respect was any real money spent on Doctor Who , and that was for the TARDIS set in Episode One , the cost of which was spread out anyway throughout the rest of the season . |
| 6 | While her hair was set in large heated rollers to give fullness , Lizzie set to work on Angela 's make-up . |
| 7 | Talks between Yeltsin , Shevardnadze and Abkhazian leader Vladislav Ardzinba set for Oct. 13 were postponed indefinitely when no agreement could be reached on a draft document to be signed by the two sides . |
| 8 | So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later . |
| 9 | Football : Sexton set for friendlies |
| 10 | Wembley set for derby double |
| 11 | Lee set for City take-over |
| 12 | Gordon set for action in a flash |
| 13 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 14 | Pogo gave me a lovely Mah Jong set for Christmas and ‘ I 'm just wild about ’ the game . |
| 15 | Carey set to work clearing the jungle and erecting a little bamboo hut with fences to keep out tigers ! |
| 16 | Beauty therapist Suzanne set to work to reduce the Santa spread by preparing Frigi-Thalgo . |
| 17 | With this in mind he approached the Reservoir Quality Prediction team in March and geologist Andrew Hogg and petrophysicist Susan Young set to work . |
| 18 | At the last conference , Neil Kinnock set in motion a plan to institute a National Policy Forum , which would meet four times a year , and produce a two-year rolling review of policy to be ( if all went well ) rubber-stamped by the annual conference . |
| 19 | Tommy set for Lewis crunch |
| 20 | Winstanley set to work with a fantastic design , eighty feet high , the lower part to be of stonework covered with metal , the upper part of wood . |
| 21 | Boscastle set for G.C.R. return |
| 22 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 23 | US and Europe set for trade war |
| 24 | International : Britain set for clash on £600m Euro-TV |
| 25 | Clinton set for victory amid doubts |
| 26 | The five vessels that would soon make history — the Vittoria ( now generally known as the Victoria ) , the Trinidada ( the Trinidad ) , the San Antonio , the Concepción and the Santiago — were small and , until Magellan set to work on them , hopelessly unseaworthy . |
| 27 | In the four books which Ransome set in East Anglia , the geographical details are so specific that the books can be used as accurate guides to the appropriate parts of Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex . |
| 28 | Armed with these two principles Einstein , Podolsky and Rosen set to work to demolish quantum mechanics . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Jerome was pleasuring her mouth , while Clement set to work between her hands . |
| 30 | The first two incorporate the so-called CPU2 dual-processor 40MHz Sparc set from Cypress Semiconductor , the 752 employs two of them , whilst the 240 is a Sun Sparcserver 2-type uni-processor . |