Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that regard , does my hon. Friend agree that the commission that the Secretary of State has set up under Professor Alexander to look at the way in which primary school children are taught is particularly welcome ? |
| 2 | The row over Landsat equipment comes on top of a dispute over a ground station that China has set up in Peking , with American help , for receiving data from US and Japanese meteorological satellites . |
| 3 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 4 | By this one Tutilo must have set out for Longner , and by this one he had returned , only to happen upon this grievous discovery along the way . |
| 5 | I mean , I do n't think Mary and Joseph would have set out for Bethlehem yet . |
| 6 | The reconstruction retraced the couple 's movements from 7pm when they are thought to have set off from Mrs Arnold 's flat in Shernhall Road , Walthamstow , east London . |
| 7 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 8 | Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors . |
| 9 | The success of the factory that Perkin had set up near Harrow encouraged thoughts of a similar enterprise near the Elephant & Castle . |
| 10 | By 3 February 1722 , when he registered his first maker 's marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , he had set up in Threadneedle Street , a move made possible by his marriage on 9 January 1722 to Alder , wealthy daughter of Samuel Phelpes , gentleman merchant , and Mary Aldworth , descendant of merchant princes linked with the East India Company and the Society of Merchant Adventurers of Bristol . |
| 11 | In Roirbak 's laboratory wing , Ari was watching a movie too , though of a slightly different nature to any Roirbak had set out for Nathan 's entertainment . |
| 12 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 13 | He and Charlotte had grown tired of the undertaking business and had set off to London to start a new life — with all the money from Mr Sowerberry 's shop in their pockets . |
| 14 | William had set off on Saturday to walk between Ben Dearg and Ben Alligin Hills . |
| 15 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 16 | Mrs Chandler , 47 , had set off from Shap in Cumbria on August 25 . |
| 17 | I want to give people a choice , and the system that we have set up through ICSTIS and the regulator will do just that . |
| 18 | THIS is a bit hard to understand but some audacious young men from Newcastle have set off for Europe in the company of Ermentrude the Cow from The Magic Roundabout . |