Example sentences of "he had set [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other man had ever managed even to light a spark within her , yet he had set her body aflame , and it had taken every ounce of will-power she possessed not to give in to the longing he 'd unleashed . |
| 2 | But oh , he had set her heart to racing the instant she 'd first seen him . |
| 3 | In retirement he had set himself the task of making a replica Tomkin long-case clock . |
| 4 | During his first term in office Macmillan had achieved the three objectives that he had set himself when he took over from Eden in 1957 . |
| 5 | MR MAJOR said last night that he had only just begun the tasks he had set himself . |
| 6 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 7 | He had told himself that his name was Michael Holly , he had set himself that challenge . |
| 8 | Ten years , he had set himself , to running a Field Office . |
| 9 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |
| 10 | In effect it provided for the dismemberment of Abyssinia and the giving to Mussolini of about half of what he had set himself to achieve by conquest . |
| 11 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 12 | In addition , although the deputy head was clearly exhausted by the enormity of the task he had set himself , he had found the experience sufficiently valuable to recommend that all teachers should extend their understanding of curriculum evaluation and develop skills in addition to the testing of pupil outcomes . |
| 13 | Given the very high target he had set himself , he managed to achieve most of his objectives , conveying to the audience the complexity of his subject , and the reasons for its interest . |
| 14 | He had set his mark on them . |
| 15 | The worry was how best to tell her father — he had set his heart on her following in his footsteps — when a coronary had spared them both . |
| 16 | He returned to England on Edouard 's new plane with fifteen excellent Jack Yeats oils ; Edouard returned secure in the knowledge that he had a winner for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , the prime race in the French racing calendar and the one he had set his heart on winning . |
| 17 | The Fellowship on which he had set his heart was not available , but his professor , who knew the circumstances , recommended him for a lectureship at London University College . |
| 18 | Although he had set his loaded rifle at his shoulder in readiness as he entered the thicket , before he could squeeze the trigger the wounded seladang was upon him . |
| 19 | But she could not make out his face , obscured from her by shadow and the oblique angle at which he had set his seat . |
| 20 | As Negus , Tafari now felt powerful enough to press ahead with the reforms he had set his heart on ; but as he did so opposition intensified . |
| 21 | He had set his heart on punching tickets and helping little old ladies on and off the bus , but he was spurned . |
| 22 | In the first , he had been robbed of something on which he had set his heart ; in the second he was robbed of his life . |
| 23 | The course at Glasgow on which he had set his heart was no longer open to him . |
| 24 | I waited till he had set it by the candle . |