Example sentences of "[noun] he set [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After finishing his apprenticeship he set up a business with this uncle , but it failed . |
| 2 | ‘ That this deal he set up with the Iranians through Nadirpur — part of the arrangement was that Philippe be released — in return for French arms . ’ |
| 3 | It is the void he set out to fill . |
| 4 | in this work he set out his basic theoretical ideas on the Soviet economy , as then structured in the period of NEP . |
| 5 | Gordon Callander : Much too junior to have responsibilty for planning , but it ‘ came to rest on his desk ’ ; nobody more senior ever reviewed plan he set out ‘ in handwriting on a few sheets of paper ’ . |
| 6 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 7 | For the moment he set aside the obvious solution . |
| 8 | Once when Denis Wirth-Miller was staying at Allen Street he set out for Soho in a cab with Minton who had four sailors in tow . |
| 9 | Rushing off across the moors he set off in pursuit of Tamara . |
| 10 | The same day he set up a Cabinet committee to investigate such a union and Helmut Haussmann , the West German Economics Minister , presented a three-stage plan to introduce economic and monetary union by the end of 1992 . |
| 11 | ‘ That fateful day he set off for work and their lives changed forever is etched on Wyn 's memory . |
| 12 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 13 | Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck . |
| 14 | The manner of his election was dubious in the extreme ; Gallus had spent much time at the court of Theuderic , but at the time of Quintianus 's death he was in Clermont ; while the citizens were trying to decide on a new candidate the Holy Spirit descended on Gallus , according to his relative Gregory , and on the advice of his uncle Inpetratus he set off and presented himself to Theuderic , who authorized his consecration . |
| 15 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 16 | With John Hanning Speke he set out to discover the source of the Nile . |
| 17 | Wasting neither time nor mercy he set about dispersing the riding families . |
| 18 | As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition . |
| 19 | Her eyes blinded by scalding tears , Isabel stumbled after fitzAlan , the punishing pace he set almost causing her to fall several times , only his vice-like grip on her arm keeping her upright . |
| 20 | When they set off for church he set off for London , driving fast . |
| 21 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 22 | In this hole the chestnut-seller lit his fire , and on the gratings he set out his pans of roasted chestnuts . |
| 23 | After leaving university he set up a roadying business on the government 's Enterprise Allowance Scheme . |
| 24 | Nick Hern has exchanged contracts with Random House for the acquisition of Nick Hern Books , the theatre list he set up as a part of Walker Books in 1988 which joined Random House in 1990 . |
| 25 | With a trembling hand he set about dialling the telephone number . |
| 26 | Upon his accession he set about the introduction of the Norman feudal system by dividing his realm up into feus or fiefs , and gave monopolistic trade charters to many towns on whose loyalty he henceforth hoped to rely . |
| 27 | He was free to lay down what proportion of their produce was to be made over to him , and how many days in the week they were to work the fields he set aside for his own use . |
| 28 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |
| 29 | ‘ After some false starts he set up as a potter at Trebyan in St -Hilary — a property which belongs to the family . |
| 30 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |