Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had set down the candle . |
| 2 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 3 | In turn , similar financial disciplines and targets could be set down the line , ‘ rewarding and punishing individual operations according to risk performance ’ . |
| 4 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 5 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 6 | Her exhaust also set off the colliery 's underground fire alarm after simmering near the down-shaft ventilation screens ! |
| 7 | Well , Charles immediately set up the kind of court that he 'd had in London as far as he could , with a very set routine . |
| 8 | Having set up the Installation Directory and the LIFESPAN Manager account as described in Sections 1.1 and 1.2.1 , you are now ready to copy the distribution kit onto your VAX . |
| 9 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 10 | Simply set up the machine in minutes , cast on over the 100 needles and off you go — sweaters in yarns from Double Knitting to Chunky can quickly be made using the famous BOND Classic Knitting System on which the new Sweater Machine is based . |
| 11 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 12 | In the Joint Committee that was set up the conflict was , in Hanrott 's words , ‘ played cool ’ , but it was conflict nevertheless . |
| 13 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 14 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 15 | Undaunted by suggestions that some things may simply be beyond quantifying , the MCI has set up the Knowledge and Understanding project to investigate . |
| 16 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 17 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 18 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 19 | Dave Brown has set up the Canoe Polo Sports Clinic . |
| 20 | If I 've set up the play that leads to goals , that 's OK by me . ’ |
| 21 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 22 | Just before his departure , Ellis had set up the position for prop Harmon 's try . |
| 23 | work put in to actually set up the system |
| 24 | The paper indignantly rejected charges that it had set up the case which had , it seemed then , consigned Jagger and Richard to jail , but outrage at the sentences had touched liberal consciences , and galvanized youth inhabiting that grey area between music and social protest . |
| 25 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 26 | The company can have between two and 50 shareholders ( people who have given money to help set up the company , and in return take a share of its profits ) . |
| 27 | Responding to scientific reports from South and North America , Europe and Australia that millions of toads , frogs and salamanders are dying , the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has set up the Task Force on Dwindling Amphibian Populations . |
| 28 | To put nature in its proper place , they have set up the exhibition as a living demonstration of the newest thinking on the interrelationship of the human and natural realms . |
| 29 | DEC has also set up the Object Database Assessment Team to provide consultancy to customers deciding between an object database or a traditional approach for an application . |
| 30 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |