Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd . |
| 2 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 3 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 4 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 5 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 6 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 7 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 8 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 9 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 10 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 11 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 12 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |