Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 2 | There were regular news reports of Hooligan gangs smashing up coffee-stalls and public houses , robbing and assaulting old ladies , attacking foreigners and setting upon policeman in the streets . |
| 3 | They moved to Sherburn-in-Elmet and set to their new task . |
| 4 | All eyes , assisted by lenses ground to various prescriptions and set into a range of tasteful frames , rest upon us . |
| 5 | In the hall , turning to Martin , she said , ‘ Come and see the table before you go upstairs , ’ and hurried forward to the dining-room , where Martin exclaimed in genuine appreciation of the table , beautifully decorated with flowers , glass , and silver and set for sixteen people . |
| 6 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 7 | The brains themselves only need the lightest poaching for a quarter of an hour before being lifted out of the court-bouillon and set on the beds of lettuce . |
| 8 | It was clearly not an easy one ; and the small group who made the bond designed to shore up its decision pales into insignificance when set against the numbers involved in the second bond . |
| 9 | We shall have to do three old ones from the last couple of years and get the costumes and sets from Vienna as usual . |
| 10 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 11 | Thank you Stephen from Leicestershire , he says that he has seen people tied to posts and set on fire . |
| 12 | He apologises for the mess and sets to work clearing books and bottles and brochures off the one cracked settee for us to sit on . |
| 13 | Jock Lewes organized a primitive laboratory in a hut and set to experimenting with various mixtures of plastic explosive , thermite , oil and aluminium filings . |
| 14 | Ever since Conran converted a struggling furniture-manufacturing business into a unique chain of retail shops called Habitat and set in motion a high-street revolution , good design has been at the core of everything he has done . |
| 15 | If a fire starts in a room ( and most hotel fires do ) , the smoke leaks through the door , rises to the ceiling and sets off the alarm . |
| 16 | After a hasty meal we assembled all hands , distributed torches and rummage equipment and set to with forced enthusiasm , as we knew from experience that often these hot suspect ships had been hammered unmercifully by a succession of rummage crews at every arrival , besides which we were not feeling at our best . |
| 17 | For me , movies and play were enmeshed during childhood , a certain cinema and its environs being both stimulus and setting for my juvenile adventures to the extent that , thirty years later , its contours and hidey holes still haunt my dreams . |
| 18 | Ralph Baughan was tipped from his wheelchair and set upon by two men who broke his wrist . |
| 19 | They have been known to kill mothers in the throes of giving birth , and park rangers run the risk of losing their own lives if set upon by poachers . |
| 20 | The roof was made of the interlaced sprays of the yew tree , stiff twigs twisted in and out , over and under , hard as ice and set with dull-red berries . |
| 21 | Of the nine republics which officially took part in the referendum , five ( Azerbaijan , Byelorussia , Kirghizia , Tadjikistan and Turkmenia ) asked only the question as set by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 22 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 23 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 24 | Given Mancini 's scenario , their role is clear : they selfishly overturned Edward 's wishes and set in motion the train of events which led directly to Edward V 's deposition . |
| 25 | After producing the Crowther Report , the Central Advisory Council was reconstituted under the chairmanship of John Newsom and set to work . |
| 26 | Push halved new potatoes , cut sides down , on to sticks and set on the hot surface . |
| 27 | Although the little hut at Trebyan was only a couple of hundred yards from the house and the pottery it was over the slope of the hill and hemmed in by gorse and hawthorn : a single large room with a verandah , built of lap boarding , raised on a brick base and set in the side of the hill . |
| 28 | That means an educated working class , understanding the needs of socialism or communism and setting about the task of achieving it by getting rid of capitalism and introducing socialism , or communism . |
| 29 | And that 's when I waved at the Guards major Nogin and set in motion the arrest of Ralph Pike . |
| 30 | When he found himself in charge of a famous school he seized his opportunity and set to work to instil in the offspring of the ruling classes the personally desirable and politically vital sense of sin . |