Example sentences of "[conj] he set [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Storr 's agreement with Rundell 's terminated on 18 February 1819 , by which time he had already found suitable workshops in Harrison Street , Gray 's Inn Road , where he set up once more as an independent manufacturer .
2 no , not yet , I 've seen the beginning where he set up the and that
3 I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes .
4 Paul knew that his plans were in God 's hands , and that certainty comes across very clearly in the way that he sets out his desire to go forward for Jesus .
5 Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 .
6 In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there .
7 He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction .
8 It was on this basis that he set about creating a new monastic life with all the force and organizational ability which he possessed .
9 Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal .
10 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
11 I have much sympathy with the aims that he set out .
12 No sooner was he back amongst his own patients than he set about exchanging the dressings applied by Dr McNab , even though they were in most cases identical to his own .
13 When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery .
14 But some doubted and one , Rol , who was a great war leader , mistrusted the feelings which prompted the Myrcans to wage war and was sickened by the killing , so he set off into the mountains to seek the Dwarves and avail himself of their ancient wisdom .
15 And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home .
16 Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river .
17 He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century .
18 To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable .
19 No child to save the marriage , so he sets up some fishing straight away instead .
20 His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent .
21 Alan Walker argues that the income of retired people must be raised and he sets out a series of specific measures to :
22 The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants .
23 And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out .
24 She said Mr Venables had turned Tottenham into a family club , adding : ‘ He always talks to us and he set up a creche at the club . ’
25 And he set up his own system of work using wal er er lookouts etcetera using er walkie-talkie radios and
26 He took his Tutors examinations in both disciplines and he set up the Euro School of Funeral Studies which flourished and gained a name for excellence .
27 Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead .
28 And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river , in a nice secluded part .
29 John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs .
30 Maybe Brando agreed with Clift ; in any case , sensing he had more to offer than an actor 's tools , he decided to take his destiny into his own hands and he set about producing One-Eyed Jacks , a western , in 1960 .
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