Example sentences of "[pers pn] were set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were set on a different road : you could even become — who knows ? — a schoolteacher . |
| 2 | I thought the two of you were set to — ‘ Angalo began . |
| 3 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
| 4 | As John Major when Chancellor told the British Chambers of Commerce at the end of 1989 , we were set for ‘ a difficult year but a promising decade ’ . |
| 5 | We were set against ( the Canadian Authors ' Association ) poetry and maple syrup ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Father , we were set upon in woodland , south of Leicester . |
| 7 | If an error occurs within a procedure or function , the value of any PRIVATE variables will be the last value they were set to within the procedure or function which gave rise to the error . |
| 8 | They were set for the garlic and the prawns , if they made it quick . |
| 9 | In April 1707 , when the Whig mayor and his officers attempted to levy a toll at the cornmarket after the Tories had already done so , they were set upon by an angry crowd egged on by the Tory mayor . |
| 10 | EARLY-morning commuters on the A8 were simply minding their own business one day last week when they were set upon and assaulted by a driver who used all the remaining power of his ageing Vauxhall Senator to bludgeon his way in and out of traffic . |
| 11 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 12 | The animosity between Stratford and Kilsby was to some extent personal , yet even where it was related to principles , they were set within revealing limits of assumptions , experience and motives . |
| 13 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
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