Example sentences of "had set [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |
2 | From 1771 onwards a series of codes for different provinces , beginning with Silesia , had set for the first time clear official limits to what the lords could demand of their peasants , especially in terms of labour-services . |
3 | Her eye backtracked the almost circular route Lori had set through the Caribbean , the southern USA and Mexico . |
4 | They had set upon the turnkey , knocking him unconscious , and then gathering his keys , made for the gate . |
5 | Among the actual owners of the horses , disbelief had set in the quickest . |
6 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
7 | Urgency went from his wing-beats , the course he had set from the Park so many weeks before now weakened and drifted . |