Example sentences of "jones set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones sets out to document and to praise the distinctive historical and contemporary modes of women 's speech , ignored by linguists and trivialised culturally by terms like gossip ( which Jones proposes to reclaim ) . |
| 2 | In 1946 Howard Stenton Jones set up home with Margaret Burns in Stanstead Road , Brixton , along with Terry , Margaret 's son from her previous marriage . |
| 3 | When challenged by the head gardener the Americans pretended to be a press gang , which was sufficient to set ‘ all the stout young fellows ’ on the estate running off to the town for safety , but he also informed them that their intended victim was taking the waters at Buxton , and Jones set off back to his boat , until the two officers with him pointed out that , having left Whitehaven empty-handed , the crew should at least be allowed to loot the house . |
| 4 | Plumber Andrew Jones set light to the house after an argument with his girlfriend Christine Smith , the girls ' aunt , a court heard . |
| 5 | Colloquium yesterday by Steve Jones set me thinking . |
| 6 | At a recent conference in London industrial guru Sir John Harvey Jones set out the reasons why . |