Example sentences of "set [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1979 fourteen committees were set up to concern themselves with the work of specific ( or in some cases two specific ) government departments . |
| 2 | Taboos against touching , and against speaking the name of a dead person , are set up to protect them from the hostility of the dead as they see it . |
| 3 | C founds not upon the wrong , if any , done to B but on the fact that A has set out to injure him by the use of an unlawful weapon : |
| 4 | Baglin emerged for the second set looking more determined , and quickly set about re-establishing himself in the match . |
| 5 | He bought the old Cherton Manor about a year ago and has set about turning himself into the local squire . ’ |
| 6 | They would meet in the morning at Mabel 's house , and have a cup of tea and a biscuit before setting out to fortify them for the journey . |
| 7 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Stupid , crazy female , ’ was all he said as he set about bandaging it with the meagre contents of the first-aid box . |
| 9 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 10 | In Parliament , he was one of the young Conservative MPs who welcomed , from a position of strength as they thought , the accession of Labour into British political life , and set about educating it in the arts of responsible participation in the polity . |