Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 2 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 3 | Thus Noel and Jose Parry define professionalism as ‘ a strategy for controlling an occupation in which colleagues set up a system of self-government ’ . |
| 4 | His words set up a buzz in Sylvie 's mind . |
| 5 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 6 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 7 | In 1951 , during the period of the Vietnamese uprising against the French colonial rule , he walked through his country 's rich tropical forests to China , where he and his colleagues set up a temporary university . |
| 8 | We did not have an echo chamber at CBR , so when Lance Sieveking required an echo effect our engineers set up a microphone in the gentlemen 's washroom where the reverberation off tiled walls and floor gave the desired effect . |