Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , he needed to have someone to ‘ come along and set up a boundary . |
| 2 | Of course there can only be one chieftain , so defeated rivals must either accept his supremacy or leave the tribe altogether and set up a new one of their own . |
| 3 | Charity relieved him of it carefully and set about the operation with skill and familiarity . |
| 4 | Hector , waking abruptly , looked up and set up a joyous barking , leaping to his feet and wagging a curly tail . |
| 5 | Activities that would lead towards the objective of writing a short story might be , ‘ clear the spare room out and set up a desk ’ , ‘ enrol on a weekend workshop on creative writing ’ , ‘ set aside the next four Sunday afternoons for writing ’ , ‘ arrange to visit a friend in six weeks ’ time with a completed first draft' . |
| 6 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 7 | The 30-year-old produced three excellent first-half stops to keep Boro out and set up the draw that leaves Chelsea seven points behind leaders Norwich . |
| 8 | Both government and unions stepped back and set up an arbitration process to try to resolve the cleaners ' claim for a minimum monthly salary of 80,000 pesetas ( £450 ) . |
| 9 | That was sufficient because the early Christians expected Jesus to return immediately and set up the reign of God on earth . |
| 10 | The latter piece of legislation , the so-called Wagner Act , further established penalties for employers seeking to prevent unions from organising freely and set up a new federal agency , the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) to ensure its provisions were enforced ( Wallace et al. , 1988 ) . |