Example sentences of "[vb past] set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 2 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 3 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 4 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 5 | I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd . |
| 6 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 7 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's terrible that all these quacks can come along without proper qualifications , ’ Lipsky complained , forgetting that he himself had set up as a dentist without qualifications , there being as yet no legal requirement for special training as there was for doctors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 11 | Headed by Iqbal Riza , a Pakistani UN political officer , and Philippe Texier , a French senior appellate court judge , this was the first mission of its type the UN had set up inside a member country [ see p. 38187 ] . |
| 12 | Sheriff Principal Robert Hay was told how Mr Watts , of Preston , Lancs , had set out on a week-end jaunt on the fatal day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But J. S. Middleton , the Labour Party General Secretary , had set out in a series of published letters to Harry Pollitt , the Communist secretary , the arguments against allowing Communist affiliation : they were largely based upon the fact that the Communists adhered to the Communist International , based in Moscow , and were bound to obey its orders . |
| 15 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 16 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 17 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 18 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 19 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 20 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 21 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 22 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 23 | The men on board the ‘ Firefly , ’ a 25-foot catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 24 | The men aboard Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 25 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 26 | Although he showed particular fondness for Jessie , John certainly was not generous to the couple when after the war her husband wanted to set up in the textile business in Newcastle . |
| 27 | It was that if I wanted to set up in the business of manufacturing coffins , he would have no objections . |
| 28 | The Vimy was constructed on February 13 , it was No 13 of the batch , the Vickers crew numbered 13 , the Vimy reached Newfoundland on May 26 ( twice 13 ) , Jack arrived in Newfoundland on May 13 , and because 13 was lucky to him Jack wanted to set off on the attempt on June 13 . |