Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Firstly I set up a still-life — say a bottle , vase and fruit — classic objects .
2 Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod .
3 Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham .
4 About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids .
5 Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December .
6 So I set up a little deception plan , charged my credit cards to the limit and smuggled Mary-Claude and the children out to Europe .
7 I set up a great screaming to attract his attention .
8 Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it .
9 Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal .
10 I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes .
11 To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee .
12 On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs .
13 I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot .
14 I set out a position which argues that there may be too much and also too little evidence for the existence of God to make religious belief a tenable option .
15 The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it .
16 It was with the idea of learning to judge distances that I set out the next morning .
17 I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet .
18 I set out the failed supper .
19 I set out the failed supper .
20 I set out the Government 's objectives in a speech in this House before I went to Maastricht .
21 I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form .
22 Briefed comprehensively by my fastidious fiancee on ironing strategy — ‘ Never start from the front/make sure you give the cuffs a decent jet of steam … not like that , you chump ! ’ — I set about a pile of shirts , mainly cotton but one silk , and a range of trousers .
23 So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters .
24 I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do .
25 With no option but courage or ignominious retreat , I set about the 4a first pitch — an intimidating looking crack breaking through the overhanging lower wall .
26 Now then , how do I set up the board ?
27 Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air .
28 I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment .
29 I set up the and I like how its done
30 These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area .
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