Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes erm during the h the Probably one of the reasons I was set on to start with , was the tremendous amount of house building . |
| 2 | I was set down at Nurina and returned to my roomette before the train tackled the " long straight " , a point where the line runs across the dead heart of the Nullarbor , a distance of 478 kilometres . |
| 3 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 4 | When we were set up with drinks , Pyke said , ‘ Tell me about yourself . ’ |
| 5 | They were set up under section 56 of the Transport Act 1962 . |
| 6 | Units of the centrally planned national economy existed in many forms as they were set up by ministries , ‘ centres of production ’ , and directorates of production and were managed either on the basis of the responsibility of a single individual , namely a state-appointed director , or ( particularly from and after the 1956 Revolution ) by workers ' councils or a council of deputies elected by the whole work-force of the enterprise . |
| 7 | The restriction was upheld by the Privy Council which rejected the argument that Deacons were only entitled to protect such part of their goodwill as would be threatened by Bridge if he were to set up in practice on his own account , ie that part of the firm 's goodwill as attached to the particular department in which he had worked . |
| 8 | It was set up with funds from leading venture capitalists Schroders , Apax and 3i . |
| 9 | It is a home from home for Sue Wilson , who has probably spent as many nights at the camp since it was set up on January 18 as she has at home . |
| 10 | It was set up in September 1987 under the Department of Education Special Services Division , and its brief was threefold : |
| 11 | It was set up in conjunction with Swiss entrepreneur Niels Rasmussen , owner of Nercom Informatik , who has also set up Goldmine Technologies AG in Zug , Switzerland ( UX No 374 ) . |
| 12 | It was set up in partnership with local authorities , industry , businesses and community and voluntary groups to produce effective solutions to environmental problems in north-west Kent . |
| 13 | And it was set up by CAFOD , Christian Aid , the New Consumer , Oxfam , Traidcraft Exchange , which is the charity side of Traidcraft and the World Development Movement . |
| 14 | It was set up by Act of Parliament in 1966 to manage the airports at Heathrow , Gatwick , Stansted and Prestwick . |
| 15 | It was set up by Leroy May , after only 5 minutes . |
| 16 | According to Goscelin 's account of the translation of the relics of St Mildred from Thanet to St Augustine 's Canterbury , written in the late eleventh century , Cnut went to Canterbury as he was setting out for Rome and promised that he would allow the translation if he returned safely . |
| 17 | They said they would follow later , perhaps , once he was set up in America . |
| 18 | A BRITISH man has pleaded guilty in Thailand to charges of heroin trafficking , saying he has no hope of proving he was set up by drug smugglers . |
| 19 | Police believe he was set up by Jim Craig , who ran the UDA 's multi-million pound a year extortion rackets . |