Example sentences of "[pers pn] have set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had no shoes for 'em so my mate and I had to set to and make the shoes and shoe them . |
| 2 | And this was a particularly popular view in the nineteen sixties and you found lots of people arguing that the American system needed reform that here was the president who was hamstrung by congress , or in the er in the er question I 've set in the , in the programme , you know , the president is less Gulliver in Lilliput , you know , as more like Pinocchio in Lilliput erm that the president has enormous responsibilities , that the nation looks to the president , the world looks to the president but the president ca n't do anything and that you need an increase in presidential power . |
| 3 | In the context of the particular brief I have set for myself , I would like , in concluding , to return to the government 's legislative programme and some of the lessons to be learnt from the experience of recent years in translating policy into practice . |
| 4 | Taken together the various reviews and studies I have set in hand constitute the most substantial examination of the social security system since the Beveridge report forty years ago . |
| 5 | The life you bring with you has set in motion |
| 6 | In later life the daughter may find herself self-condemned as , without adequate inner resources , she fails to live up to the ideal standards she has set for herself . |
| 7 | At the emotional level , this can mean that the personal involvement is engaged ahead of the action , and that by the time the manipulation is actually taking effect , its originator can sit back and observe what she has set in motion . |
| 8 | She had set to with a will , but had been dismayed to discover that her appetite did not match it . |
| 9 | As I walked around that charming town , I undertook the task of solving the puzzle she had set for me . |
| 10 | He did not see the trap she had set for him . |
| 11 | And furthermnore , as O'Keeffe continued the direction she had set for her art in 1923 , various critics accentuated their assessments of her work with words such as ‘ courageous ’ , ‘ imaginative ’ , ‘ introspective ’ , and ‘ original ’ — all having traditionally ‘ masculine ’ connotations . |
| 12 | You had to set about it as soon as you got in : doing the legs if they were sweating . |
| 13 | A line set at exactly right angles to the wind is rare , so you have to set about detecting which is the favoured end , three methods for this are shown in Fig 95 . |
| 14 | So we thank you for food , for clothing , for our homes , and for the government that you have set over the world . |
| 15 | Should the need arise , the two channels can be slaved together , so that the signal passing through Channel 2 is actually controlled by the parameters you have set for Channel 1 . |
| 16 | And then setting out our way of operating to , to meet the specifications and requirements that we 've set for ourselves . |
| 17 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 18 | To state the problem ( that is to say the intellectual problem we have set for ourselves ) in a way which enables us to go about finding a solution is not easy . |
| 19 | ‘ We are meeting the goals we have set for ourselves in returning Digital to profitability and growth , ’ said president and chief executive Robert Palmer . |
| 20 | We have set in opposition , on the one hand , historical and theoretical genres : historical genres are the result of an observation of literary phenomena ; theoretical genres are deducted from a theory of literature . |
| 21 | Phillip Gates sees the use of surplus agricultural land to make ‘ wildlife corridors ’ as our best hope of helping the natural world adapt to the changes we have set in motion . |
| 22 | ‘ We have to maintain the high standards which we have set in order for growth to continue . ’ |
| 23 | Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves . |
| 24 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 25 | They had set upon the turnkey , knocking him unconscious , and then gathering his keys , made for the gate . |
| 26 | At Level Two students will plan and organise enterprise activity , taking into account their personal abilities , preferences and the goals which they have set for themselves . |
| 27 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 28 | But the NEC said that all the associations had performed poorly in relation to the criteria it had set for them . |
| 29 | He had to set about making a living as a free-lance musician . |
| 30 | Then he had set to work himself , though rather clumsily , he was still weak from his illness . |