Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 2 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 3 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 4 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 5 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |