Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they set out to ride roughshod over the legislative branch , attempting to govern without congress rather than with it . |
| 2 | In Denmark a variety of projects have been set up to deal specifically with the introduction of electronic data processing known as DUE ( an acronym for the Danish translation of Democracy Development and EDP ) . |
| 3 | Like the NEB , it was set up to operate separately from the direct institutions of central government and the Scottish Office , although dependent on them for funds ( up to £75 million in the mid-1980s ) and its board included representatives of business and labour as well as government . |
| 4 | Rupture of the hymen could theoretically be a Category 2 offence where the defendant deliberately set out to do so in the belief that he would thereby be able to have sexual intercourse with the woman . |
| 5 | After leaving the potion laboratory , she soon discovered that Mildred was not in her room and set off to look all over the school where , of course , she did not find the missing pupil . |
| 6 | I found the proper cracks and set off jamming in between the bulging , blocky flutes that reminded so much of the solid Sennen cracks and of the second pitch of Doorpost — but they were rounded , too , and the cracks not deep — in places like a Lundy cliff , complete with grit and tufts of grass and alarming rattles . |