Example sentences of "[pers pn] had set [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 5 | 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 . |