Example sentences of "he set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He said he would be seeing Mr Moi in Bonn the following week , and asked if I would like him to set up a meeting with the president . |
| 2 | Now , £100 000 from the Department of Industry has enabled him to set up a full-time commercial unit to analyse samples sent from Europe as well as Britain . |
| 3 | A COLLEAGUE 'S 4½-year-old son has asked him to set up the video camera in front of the chimney on Christmas Eve to catch Santa on camera . |
| 4 | Dutta said Guppy also asked him to set up an account in Geneva which he used to channel nearly £500,000 following the fake robbery and insurance payout . |
| 5 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 6 | Again Ted demurred , but the Parliamentary Party 's unease over the procedure for new leadership elections caused him to set up a review committee under Alec Home . |
| 7 | He joined the company in 1960 when asked him to set up the Company 's first electrical department . |
| 8 | This will enable him to set up excluded property settlements . |
| 9 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 10 | A year in Florence and the poetry of Dante have inspired him to set out to understand the influences in his life and work . |
| 11 | According to his contemporary biographer , Richard Sibbes [ q.v. ] , the dominant influence on his early years was his uncle , Sir Henry Yelverton [ q.v. ] , who persuaded him to set aside his early inclination to become a divine and pursue his studies in the law . |
| 12 | What began as a hobby took over his life and though Joan did n't have the same initial enthusiasm , she helped him set up Woodstock Exotics in 1983 and now she becomes so fond of some of the plants she wo n't be parted from them ! |
| 13 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
| 14 | After her husband told her they had been ruined by Wickens , she stormed off to confront him , only to see him setting off on his bicycle . |
| 15 | Howley , an ICI man , also took charge of two South American club finals our splendid 1964 photograph shows him setting off from Darlington station for Montevideo . |
| 16 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 17 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 18 | He had discovered a method of intercepting springs , and , using stone to seal his drains , he and others like him set about spreading the gospel of effective underdrainage . |
| 19 | By the beginning of 1668 , Jacob had joined his brother Isaac in England , and with him set about selling Hebrew books to a devoted clientele that included Henry Oldenburg , Robert Boyle , and Thomas Barlow of the Bodleian Library [ qq.v . ] . |
| 20 | I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train . |
| 21 | Parties can he set indoors or outdoors — or be split between the two . |
| 22 | What , then , should the researcher look for in the settlements in his area , and how should he set about analysing what he finds ? |
| 23 | Never at any time in his career did he set out solely to defend . |
| 24 | Why was he set up ? ’ |
| 25 | No sooner had he set up these new procedures than Coleman was summoned to the American Embassy in Nicosia by the Department of Defense attaché , Col. John Sasser , to whom he had reported on leaving Beirut as a CBN ‘ refugee ’ a few months earlier . |
| 26 | Had Pardy , in a nutshell , just been carried away and thoughtless — which might result in a lesser charge — or had he set out to harm Harriet with such deadly results that this might even finish up as a trial for manslaughter ? |
| 27 | Before the table Edward Hussey stood hunched in defensive composure , very plainly dressed — had he set out to demonstrate the modesty of his means ? — and with his countenance fixed in an expression of resigned and dutiful benevolence . |
| 28 | He sets up long , colourful and emotional speeches that are in turn both funny , beautiful and violent , and his work can not be compared with anything that has preceded him . |
| 29 | He sets up poetry , rhetoric , and textuality , as against the myth of presence , the poem as the life-blood of a master spirit , and the Romantic ideal of expressiveness . |
| 30 | After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child , he sets up his own suicide . |