Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 2 | They had set up their mortar about twenty yards from our trench , and periodically fired off a couple of bombs in the direction of the German positions . |
| 3 | While Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century-Fox had set up their own production companies to produce British pictures , other US distributors relied on local suppliers . |
| 4 | The original shareholders were chiefly entrepreneurs who had set up their own firms during the previous half century , such as Cornelius Vanderbilt , John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie . |
| 5 | They had set up their own operative . |
| 6 | Ireland had been slipping out of Britain 's grasp — Sinn Fein had almost swept the board in the local elections , they had set up their own provisional government in Dublin and in some areas of the country theirs was the only authority recognised — and , on top of all that , in September alone there had been over two thousand IRA arms raids . |
| 7 | Before that , sectarian East End Jews , refugees from Tsarist pogroms , had set up their workrooms as tailors and furriers . |
| 8 | It seemed especially desperate at a charter fair in my home town as we watched a local housewife who had set up her fortune-telling tent . |
| 9 | The floods of past winters had piled up a huge logjam just below a fishing lodge on the River Usk , and a female mink had set up her den there . |
| 10 | They spread the maps on the floor of the larger of the two bed-chambers and Caspar pointed with a podgy finger to the Fire Country where Reflection had set up her Court . |
| 11 | The Home Office had set up its own Research Unit in 1957 , in addition to supporting criminological research in the universities and elsewhere . |
| 12 | His rampant facial heat had set up its headquarters in his nose ; from there , stray tendrils of blood seemed to leak into his remorseful grey eyes . |
| 13 | The ELN leadership confirmed on Sept. 20 that a Socialist Renewal Movement ( CRS ) within the ELN had set up its own organization . |
| 14 | Once I had set up my basic ingredients , I then started working with the group at the bottom of the picture . |
| 15 | First of all , DeFries , by this time , had set up his headquarters in New York although David was still headquartered in London . |
| 16 | In collaboration with Nigel Neilson , a colourful former SAS officer who had set up his own public relations company , they decided to ‘ sell ’ the royal family . |
| 17 | By the early 1980s , he had set up his own company , Albrite . |
| 18 | Yet by March the next year , Brian Courtenay had set up his mistress in the luxury love nest that would help to empty the family coffers . |
| 19 | On coming ashore Charles Newman had set up his headquarters near the bridge ( 'G' ) across the lock leading from the Entrance . |
| 20 | In the bell room Ferris had set up his metal exhibits table and had neatly laid out his spoils , each tagged and shrouded in its plastic envelope . |
| 21 | Other units rapidly followed establishing British control over the main lines of communication throughout most of Carinthia and by 10 May Gen Keightley had set up his 5 Corps HQ near Klagenfurt . |
| 22 | In 1913 this tendency was reinforced by the activities of James Larkin , a Liverpool born Irishman who had served his apprenticeship as an active trade unionist and full-time official with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers but who , resenting any control exercised from its Liverpool headquarters , had set up his own Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union in December 1908 . |
| 23 | Twelve years back that contract had expired and he had set up his own Company , but that venture had failed after only three years . |
| 24 | There , a former customer of the plaintiffs gave evidence that he had met the defendant in the street and mentioned to him that he had heard he had set up his own business and wanted the defendant to cut him a suit . |
| 25 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 26 | The respectable rowdies had set about their business with gleeful shouts of ‘ Now , boys , for a jolly spree ! ’ and ‘ Go it , boys , go it ! ’ doing damage amounting to £300 and causing the proprietor of Cremorne to pay out £500 in prosecuting the case . |
| 27 | PTI reported on Feb. 2 that the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) had set out its terms for discussions with the central government in a recent letter to the state Governor D. D. Thakur . |
| 28 | She had never seemed that keen on the idea , and had set out her conditions in Madrid on membership . |
| 29 | The end of the arcade was full of women , all of them whispering and staring towards the place where Zurachina 's servants had set down her chair . |