Example sentences of "[noun prp] had set the " in BNC.

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1 Burun had set the target back in its original position , an easy shot .
2 Sandy Lyle had set the fashion for getting home in two from there when he won in 1988 and though Couples did not , like Lyle , make a birdie , he was only a whisker away from it .
3 Canadian veteran Grant Connell had set the stage for Nestor in more ways than one .
4 The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges .
5 Now Alvar Fañez Minaya had set the host in order and while the Bishop Don Hieronymo and Gil Diaz led away the body of the Cid , and Doña Ximena , and the baggage , he fell upon the Moors .
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