Example sentences of "set [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot . |
| 2 | The principal Acts of Parliament which set down the audit requirements of central government are the Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 1866 and 1921 and the National Audit Act 1983 . |
| 3 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 4 | set over the beak , |
| 5 | The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows . |
| 6 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 7 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 8 | The Master Locksmiths Association has its roots in the early 1950s , when a group of craftsmen set up the Greater London Locksmiths Association . |
| 9 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 10 | Nothing happened until , quite independently , a group of enthusiasts set up the Folly Fellowship in 1988 . |
| 11 | Set up the equipment we will need , |
| 12 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ We are now on our tenth such scheme in the three years since we set up the company , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Secret You set up the cups as in the diagram : and turn A and B over to get the second position . |
| 15 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 16 | The three partners set up the Viscose Syndicate in 1893 , with the aim of producing adhesives , films , coatings for natural fibres , and mouldings , and British Viscoid Ltd. followed in 1896 . |
| 17 | Material sufficient for three divisions was despatched to the nationalist regime of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in aid of his war against Greece , and the honeymoon period with Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek ( 1922–27 ) saw the granting of more than $2 million in military aid to the Kuomintang : whilst Soviet advisers set up the Whampoa military academy and trained soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army in the field , Soviet troops performed limited combat missions , including aerial bombardment and reconnaissance . |
| 18 | Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run . |
| 19 | The advantage to teachers will then outweigh the inconvenience caused when we set up the scheme . |
| 20 | If you set up the water to the right parameters , there is no reason why you should no be able to keep this species successfully . |
| 21 | Now you might that will get us on T V and it it is also self financing as well in as much as you set up the promotion , the T V companies but it off you . |
| 22 | In the following year Koops set up the Minerva Universal Insurance Office in Pall Mall , Westminster . |
| 23 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 24 | Alongside these activities , Thakin Nu — whose literary leanings were already emerging — set up the Naga-Ni or Red Dragon Bookshop just off the university campus to sell the publications of the Left Book Club and also Marxist literature . |
| 25 | ‘ We set up the stand outside the Prince of Wales at ten to three on Saturday afternoons when the pub used to chuck them out , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 . |
| 27 | Erm fact that you set up the scene for the introductions and you asked for it that you , you know , took and reduced those people to an image of which was good . |
| 28 | They set up the pageant in a village street , and not one cottager came out to greet them . |
| 29 | When you set up the form , you have immediately created your database . |
| 30 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |