Example sentences of "then [pers pn] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then you set up a review section which reduces books about famine and war to a star rating for entertainment . |
| 3 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 4 | Then she set it in the middle of a saucer . |
| 5 | Then she set off back to the library . |
| 6 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 7 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
| 8 | Then she set to with bleach and scouring pads to render the vases spotless . |
| 9 | Then we set . |
| 10 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 11 | Then we set off by car to tape some face-to-face interviews with funeral directors . |
| 12 | They watched us unpack everything and then we set off . |
| 13 | Then they set off climbing . |
| 14 | Then they set off after the horses . |
| 15 | ‘ Some men beat yer farvver up an' then they set the ware'ouse alight , ’ Nellie said , her voice full of emotion . |
| 16 | Then they set up fifteen study groups , each of which was charged with designing a new state for one of the fifteen suggestions . |
| 17 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 18 | Then they set up resourcing arrangements , just as they would do for any other business operation they undertook . |
| 19 | Then they set off over the fields for the nearest village , two miles away . |
| 20 | And then they set off from there into Kirkwall about What time ? |
| 21 | If it is allowed that such contrivance is pedagogically desirable as activating the process of learning , then it sets its own conditions for normality . |
| 22 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 23 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 24 | Then he set out to rappel down the cliff , jerk after jerk as his feet hit the rock . |
| 25 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 26 | Then he set to work laying siege to her with letters . |
| 27 | Then he set Mick off into another spasm of laughter when he asked , ‘ Do you think I could get a job alongside you in the factory ? ’ |
| 28 | His dark eyes flickered briefly in her direction then he set his mouth in grim lines . |
| 29 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 30 | He spun round in surprise and then he set the horse towards her , pacing slowly , strongly and rather menacingly . |