Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] set [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 2 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |
| 3 | If I 've set up the play that leads to goals , that 's OK by me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You mean I 've set off the alarms ? |
| 5 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 6 | After a detailed explanation of his revenue-raising proposals , the Chancellor concluded : ‘ In the first Budget of the Parliament , I have set out the Government 's economic strategy . |
| 7 | Landlords who wish to take over public sector dwellings have first to seek the approval of the Housing Corporation which has set out the criteria for approval in some detail . |
| 8 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 9 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 10 | He wants you to help set up the room . ’ |
| 11 | She had set down the candle . |
| 12 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 13 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 14 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 15 | The call for a probe follows a letter sent to Sunday Life last week by inmates in the powderkeg jail who have set up the Concerned Prisoners For Justice Committee . |
| 16 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 17 | We 've set out the assumptions that erm we used as a basis for our projections in the note in front of you . |
| 18 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 19 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 20 | We have set up the Farm Animal Welfare Council and have brought in welfare codes covering livestock on farms and in transit . |
| 21 | I can imagine , when we have set up the institutions and signed in principle to the treaty , the Whips coming up to me and saying , ‘ Look here , Spicer , you are talking about this opt-out as if it were a real option . |
| 22 | We have set up the institutions and everybody is joining them . |
| 23 | We have set up the consumer panel and I meet consumers regularly when I have discussions in the Ministry . |
| 24 | We have set out the timetable . |
| 25 | We have set out the policies for customers , and that was what motivated the main changes this year in our telecoms policy . |
| 26 | Under each , each heading , erm , we have set out the priority objectives together with an outline strategy statement of achieving each objective , and er , we have in the department a lead officer for each of those headings . |
| 27 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 28 | To put nature in its proper place , they have set up the exhibition as a living demonstration of the newest thinking on the interrelationship of the human and natural realms . |
| 29 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed . |