Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I set up a great screaming to attract his attention .
2 So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe .
3 I set out the failed supper .
4 I set out the failed supper .
5 I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form .
6 It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning .
7 There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed .
8 This allows you to set up a different sound by altering the mid emphasis , coupled with selectable additional boost which can then be triggered by either the front panel ‘ enable ’ switch or via a footswitch .
9 One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know .
10 ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me .
11 We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion .
12 Therefore , in 1905 , she set up a British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation , and soon , with the help of volunteer translators , was bringing out an English edition of its French and German Bulletin .
13 She set up a fundamental review of the way the NHS was financed and organised .
14 But it did n't stop him bumping into her every five minutes as she set up the slithering plastic tent , the heaters .
15 Before she set off the following morning , she 'd visited the Maison du Vin , which was housed in a former medieval monastery .
16 Let me set out the main provisions of the agreements we reached .
17 Said Len Brealey : ‘ The plain facts are that after Mr Woolhouse failed to reach payment in an original contract we set up a new agreement .
18 Following the very worthwhile discussion at the seminar we set up a Working Party to explore the main issues of concern and to suggest practical guidelines and recommendations for implementation .
19 The likeliest place for the specks to get into the product was in the ‘ Fluon ’ finishing Room so we set up a multi-disciplinary CAT of operators , supervisors , QC , QA and maintenance personnel headed by Finishing Room manager Jim Fairhurst .
20 Maybe if we set up a few committees , something will happen . ’
21 We set up a national network of consumer advice centres : the Government closed them down .
22 Paul was an apprentice electrician at Watneys brewery in Mortlake so he brought some barrels of beer along and we set up a proper bar .
23 If we desire something which opposes a current belief , we set up an inner conflict — so look carefully at your beliefs in this area of your life .
24 We set up an independent Ministry of consumer protection : this Government closed it down .
25 ‘ At the start , we set up an advisory group with some head teachers .
26 We were taxed by ethical issues when we set up the elective ventilation protocol : ethics may be defined as what is right , and in turn that can be regarded as behaviour that causes no distress , offence , or indignity in the context of current societal values .
27 As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident .
28 In Chapter 6 we set out a dual-route model of reading aloud , distinguishing between a lexical procedure and a non-lexical procedure for converting print to speech .
29 That is why in this manifesto we set out a clear analysis of Britain 's problems and our proposals for putting them right .
30 We set out the political context of the strike ( second section ) , before analysing the most notorious mass picket of the dispute , the ‘ Battle of Orgreave ’ .
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