Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] set a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 2 | I had set a personal best of 10.5 seconds in my semi-final , and was running into silver-medal position in the final when my hamstring went . |
| 3 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 4 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 5 | Now she had to let her husband know , oh-so-artlessly , that she had set a guard on Marion that he could n't break without scandal . |
| 6 | The previous day she had set a new world record in the preliminaries . |
| 7 | She had set a very high standard for our display work and had established a tradition which we would do all we could to uphold in the future . |
| 8 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 9 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 10 | We had set a target of 50 tonnes per month maximum of caustic lost to drain and quickly met and indeed exceeded that . |
| 11 | LANCASHIRE looked to Neil Fairbrother for inspiration as they struggled to set a winning target in today 's Benson and Hedges Cup semi-final against Leicestershire at Grace Road . |
| 12 | Sir Richard said sportsmen had a tremendous impact on youngsters when it came to tobacco advertising and they had to set an example . |
| 13 | They had set a target of £5,000 , the same amount that was raised in Manchester and Salford in 1981 , and were delighted when a record of £6,141 was collected . |
| 14 | It was an attempt at prohibition that was never wholly successful but it did set an example . |
| 15 | He had set a forester on the road between Stamford and Casterton bridges , who exacted four pence for cheminage from every cart carrying wood or timber from Lincolnshire to Stamford , contrary to custom and the Charter of the Forest . |
| 16 | He had set a pressure lamp on the Land-Rover 's hood before leaving the cabin but he could n't see it through the rain . |
| 17 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 18 | He wanted to set a standard that says a system is easy to use ‘ if at least 90 per cent of a representative example of users can be trained to the level specified in 15 minutes or less . ’ |
| 19 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 20 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |