Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hundred foot garden , ’ said the woman and Amanda set off to verify this while Don and the woman waited . |
| 2 | LEFT His equipment set up to demonstrate this fact using an unfortunate frog.BOTTOM Du Bois-Reymond demonstrating his apparatus for investigating muscular current and electric potential . |
| 3 | These are my conclusions now : I never set out to do this when I was twenty or fifteen , but I realise , after many years , that this was fundamentally what I was aiming to do . |
| 4 | Julia set out to test this hypothesis . |
| 5 | Ford set out to see this cynosure and found Her so wrapped and swaddled in lace robes and veiling that he could see no trace of figure or countenance . |
| 6 | In 1987 the Shared Earth Trust took over the management of the farm and set out to reverse this process , establishing a long term programme to develop Denmark Farm as a haven for wildlife and a genetic bank from which wildlife species will be able to spread out and recolonise the surrounding countryside when future agricultural policies make this possible . |
| 7 | In the early 1980s NACAB set out to address this issue through a major Classification Research Project , first in collaboration with the British Library , and then with the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 8 | When he came into office George Bush set out to make this national characteristic a centrepiece of his domestic policy , referring to ‘ a thousand points of light ’ . |
| 9 | sweet and fruity Banish all thoughts of guilt at once and set out to make this a summer of indulgence . |
| 10 | The employers saw this as an opportunity to ensure the complete destruction of trade unionism and , between 1877 and 1922 , set out to achieve this aim . |
| 11 | Once done , he set about building this lodge to serve as a grandstand , from whose balcony he could be with family and friends and watch his hounds coursing deer across the bare miles . |
| 12 | He set about exploiting this one with tremendous zeal . |
| 13 | With the help of another local engineer , Norman Crossland , he set about making this flying machine . |