Example sentences of "had set [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun , he thought , had set on them now for sure . |
| 2 | Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves . |
| 3 | And furthermnore , as O'Keeffe continued the direction she had set for her art in 1923 , various critics accentuated their assessments of her work with words such as ‘ courageous ’ , ‘ imaginative ’ , ‘ introspective ’ , and ‘ original ’ — all having traditionally ‘ masculine ’ connotations . |
| 4 | As I walked around that charming town , I undertook the task of solving the puzzle she had set for me . |
| 5 | But the NEC said that all the associations had performed poorly in relation to the criteria it had set for them . |
| 6 | He did not see the trap she had set for him . |
| 7 | Cotton 's greatest interest for the rest of his life was to help young professionals follow and benefit from the high standards he had set for himself . |
| 8 | He reassured everyone that it would make no difference to the course he had set for himself . |
| 9 | Wolfgang Kohler argued that the problems Thorndyke had set for his cats determined the type of learning they demonstrated . |
| 10 | This meeting had taken place about two weeks ago ; two weeks of frustration and boredom rubbing away at the monkey 's sanity , its only hope to keep concentrating ; to put all its energy into finishing the task the computer had set for it ; another four , maybe five hours of programming . |
| 11 | It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life . |
| 12 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 13 | Now that rigor mortis had set in it was in fact all the easier to lift him . |
| 14 | When they went after something nothing made them waver , just as he had set after her . |