Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] set [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 2 | She wanted to set down the southern landscape . |
| 3 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 4 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 5 | He had set out the costly paper , ink and pens with geometric precision on the table and was setting a stool for the scribe to sit on . |