Example sentences of "[vb past] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 2 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 3 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 4 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 . |