Example sentences of "had [adv] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had , to a great extent , succeeded . |
| 2 | And Wolves should have had a second penalty after Regis had apparently set up Kelly but Sandford 's challenge went unnoticed by Mr Harrison , Stoke escaped and Wolves were denied the chance to regain the lead . |
| 3 | They had already set up Exhibition clubs so that working men could pay in small sums a week towards the total cost of an excursion ticket which included accommodation at the Ranelagh Club — bed and a hearty Victorian breakfast — for two shillings ; the fare was five shillings . |
| 4 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 5 | Before the 1964–70 Labour government made it Department of Education and Science policy , a number of local authorities had already set up comprehensive schools . |
| 6 | Management budgets for clinicians based on agreed workload and service targets were such " a vital management tool " that the Inquiry had already set up demonstration projects in four districts . |
| 7 | Putrefaction had already set in . |
| 8 | Irina had already set off carrying two suitcases . |
| 9 | Stephen had already set off down the path . |
| 10 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 11 | Seth had not set out to break word-count records . |
| 12 | A spokesman for Land Travel said the company had not set out to mislead the public but when the non-smoking trip did not attract a full complement of passengers it ‘ consolidated ’ it with a smoking holiday . |
| 13 | The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps . |
| 14 | He thanked God that rigor mortis had not set in ; presumably the cold had delayed it . |
| 15 | He and Byron were discussing Darwin 's experiments and speculations on the future , and on the likely possibility of revivifying corpses by electric shock treatment provided mortification had not set in . |
| 16 | They had just set out on holiday in their Mazda car . |
| 17 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 18 | She had hardly set out when the unwelcome attentions of a British privateer forced her back to Ostend and , at her second attempt , she was intercepted again , off Banff , but for a second time escaped . |
| 19 | That is a rare instance , in British literary annals , of a band of brothers achieving in broad terms , for a time , what it had once set out to do . |
| 20 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 21 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 22 | Resort officials had deliberately set off a number of small avalanches on Saturday morning as a normal safety procedure . |
| 23 | The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds . |
| 24 | It had also set out its stance in the Harare Declaration , adopted by the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) in August 1989 [ see p. 36837 ] and subsequently endorsed by the Non-aligned Movement and the UN General Assembly . |
| 25 | The purchase of the Stockholm group already means that more than 60% of Wolters Kluwer 's activities are now outside the Netherlands , an objective that the company had originally set out to achieve in 1994 . |
| 26 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 27 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 28 | Catherine had barely set out the pens and Pencils on her desk , when the editor pushed open the door . |
| 29 | Other colleagues working in schools or adult training centres from our authority were also asked to participate , as together we had previously set up a voluntary curriculum development group to look at authority-wide provision for young people and adults with severe learning difficulties . |
| 30 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |