Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] set [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal .
2 You will be able to tackle and succeed in almost anything provided you set about the problem in the right way .
3 If you set up the water to the right parameters , there is no reason why you should no be able to keep this species successfully .
4 In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume .
5 Although , as has been argued already , the significance of the 1934 Congress is to be located in its general guiding principles rather than in specific theories , it is nonetheless worthwhile examining briefly the substance of the 1934 debate not only because it sets out the agenda for a detailed discussion of socialist realism , but also because Nizan 's second novel , Le Cheval de Troie , was produced , for the most part in the Soviet Union during 1934 in the shadow of the Congress itself .
6 To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee .
7 Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it .
8 ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said .
9 ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said .
10 The objects clause of the memorandum of association is the most important , since it sets out the purposes for which the company was formed .
11 When you set up the form , you have immediately created your database .
12 Now you might that will get us on T V and it it is also self financing as well in as much as you set up the promotion , the T V companies but it off you .
13 ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , as she set down the tray between them , ‘ do you always go into the office on Saturdays ?
14 The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme .
15 The process of information-gathering which ensued was certainly no more radical than that sanctioned by Nicholas I when he set up the Committee of 6 December 1826 .
16 ‘ My father was n't exactly short of money when he set up the trust . ’
17 By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company .
18 Ramsay did not exactly cheer , but Will noticed a certain lightening in his brother 's step thereafter , as he set about the business of summoning men .
19 ‘ So I was informed , ’ Rohan Saint Yves said grimly , as he set down the tray .
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