Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to the playback in an ante-room where Reference had set up both digital and analogue recorders , the composer felt the sound-quality was excellent . |
| 2 | Mr Newman , of Emu Close , Heath and Reach , Beds , had set up home with Miss Thomas a month ago . |
| 3 | For the first time in at least three centuries my branch of the Hey family had set up home beyond the Kirkburton parish boundary . |
| 4 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |
| 5 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 6 | The incendiary charges Manolo 's experts had set up earlier in the day went up on schedule . |
| 7 | When they had reached St Matthew 's church he had followed her inside as naturally as if they had set out together that morning . |
| 8 | On another occasion I had set out alone across Peterhead Outer Harbour with our 17ft Searider to fetch the rummage crew off a ship when careless stowage of the bow rope resulted in the trailing end catching the propeller . |
| 9 | He felt Bully Boy had set out too quickly , but when he asked Market Leader to quicken in the back straight he got no response . |
| 10 | The marchioness had set out early , announcing she was going to visit friends near Yellowmead Down . |
| 11 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 12 | If Rune had set out deliberately to enrage her he could n't have chosen a better way . |
| 13 | Each time I have a pint in the pub at Rhydd Ddu I recall a snowy Easter night spent waiting for mates who had set off earlier to tackle the Snowdon Horseshoe . |
| 14 | Monday had been excusable , the roadworks unexpected ; by Tuesday the roadworks had grown and even though she had set off earlier she was still late . |
| 15 | Nutty discussed the problem one night with Biddy after the others had set off back to the factory . |
| 16 | He had set off early , too . |
| 17 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 18 | The Welshman had set off home in a cold fury . |