Example sentences of "[pron] have set the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’
2 And er I 've set the bucket as well .
3 I 've set the table outside on the terrace , ’ Fernando told her , stepping through from the kitchen beyond .
4 This year , I have set the Employment Service the task of placing 1.3 million people in jobs — 5,000 every working day — and it is achieving that target .
5 WALL Street moved further into record-breaking territory yesterday , continuing a recent run which has set the scene for sharp rallies in Tokyo and Hong Kong .
6 So you that one second time instructions from that point unlikely very very unlikely so you 've set the scene with a good strong step one , so looking at each indiv individual part of the open , which parts do you think you could leave out ?
7 She laughed out loud , since it was he who had set the pace .
8 Dunlop took over the lead in the 125 championship race on lap 13 , which proved unlucky for Italian Ivan Cremonini , who had set the pace for eight laps .
9 Dunlop took over the lead in the 125 championship race on lap 13 , which proved unlucky for Italian Ivan Cremonini , who had set the pace for eight laps .
10 Firstly , it was difficult to ensure that teachers would act as anticipated by those who had set the project objectives — changes were not internalized by teachers and made routine in their classrooms ( Richards , 1983 ; Slater , 1985 ) .
11 If you had set the pitch of the blades using a pitch gauge this will , of course , upset your careful adjustments .
12 Some of the councils who have set the poll tax budgets in relation to the government 's community charge is far in excess of their estimation , and you know it 's absolutely ridiculous .
13 If a balance were left over , it would be reasonable for him to try to use it to repay those who have set the trend .
14 While one can not assert unequivocally that determination will win , in the balance of life you can alter direction more easily on the move than you can if you are static , and if you have set the direction in this way it will almost alter itself .
15 Well members of the jury it is because we 've set the course that acting upon in itself would not have been enough .
16 We 've set the target of the year 2000 to make all rights of way accessible and the action pack should help to achieve that .
17 In fact you 'll find we 've set the stage for you — with our team of professionals dedicated to turning every meeting into a major success .
18 The tasks we had set the Rottweiler have become lost and very rarely will you find a Rottweiler today herding cattle anywhere in the world , although most could still accomplish this task if required .
19 We have set the tone for the future , and that is to be greatly welcomed .
20 We have set the platform for things to move ahead .
21 They 've set the date ! ’
22 At the beginning of March his council announced that they had set the charge at £400 .
23 Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations .
24 Together with designer Juliet Watkinson , however , he has set the comedy in what he says is a recognizably modern world , 1992 or ‘ it could be 1995 .
25 According to Computerworld , it has said that at the next APPN Implementors ' Workshop , set for this week , it will seek input from other vendors on how to set priorities for future enhancements , and it has set the price for reverse engineering the code at $25,000 , a lower figure than many had predicted .
26 She said : ‘ It has set the standard throughout all the installations .
27 Samsung Electronics Co Ltd , Seoul , South Korea has bought Harris Corp 's Harris Microwave Semiconductor on undisclosed terms , saying it has set the stage to produce Gallium Arsenide chips to help strengthen its international competitiveness in telecommunications .
28 He had set the video up earlier in the evening while Elaine was making supper .
29 He had set the brake on the reel at two hundred kilos , leaving a hundred as insurance against the line parting .
30 He had set the pattern for the modern missionary movement but his own assessment of himself was typically modest : ‘ I can plod .
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