Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes . |
| 2 | To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee . |
| 3 | Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it . |
| 4 | I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot . |
| 5 | On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs . |
| 6 | I set out the Government 's objectives in a speech in this House before I went to Maastricht . |
| 7 | I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet . |
| 8 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 9 | Now then , how do I set up the board ? |
| 10 | These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area . |
| 11 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 12 | It was the quarrymen 's subscribed pennies which set up the University College of North Wales in Bangor at the turn of the century . |
| 13 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 15 | Ministers from 15 member countries attending the third Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) conference in Seoul on Nov. 12-14 issued a declaration at the close of the talks which set out the direction and role for APEC as " an exemplary model of open regional co-operation " , and agreed to co-operate to reduce trade barriers both within the region and worldwide , and to identify and promote the region 's interests . |
| 16 | The Accounting Standards Board ( ASB ) has published for comment an exposure draft of the Foreword to UITF Abstracts explaining the authority , scope and application of the Urgent Issues Task Force ( UITF ) abstracts issued by the ASB which set out the consensus reached by the UITF on particular issues . |
| 17 | Mr. Clements , a partner in Crossman Block , swore two affidavits , dated respectively 16 January and 6 February 1992 , which set out the case of their clients . |
| 18 | Mrs Thatcher 's speech at Bruges in September 1988 which set out the government 's view of its relations with the European Community was drafted by her Private Secretary and foreign policy adviser , Charles Powell . |
| 19 | Just before Christmas 1985 , I published the White Paper which set out the Government 's new proposals for legislation . |
| 20 | There was no mention of the agency in the Queen 's Speech , which set out the government 's legislative plans for the new 18-month session of Parliament following the re-election of the Conservatives on 9 April . |
| 21 | Expert clauses which set out the procedure in more detail than providing that the parties have the right to make representations are probably not very helpful . |
| 22 | New detailed syllabuses have been produced , which set out the knowledge and skills that a student actuary has to master before qualification . |
| 23 | Prepare agendas for the meetings which set out the ground rules , issues to be covered and those which may not be discussed ( i.e. whether to talk price ) . |
| 24 | I have also seen the important comments of the CBI , which set out the fact that Britain now attracts nearly half of all the inward investment from Japan that comes to the European Community . |
| 25 | The principal Acts of Parliament which set down the audit requirements of central government are the Exchequer and Audit Departments Acts 1866 and 1921 and the National Audit Act 1983 . |
| 26 | It is ironic that Godoy was overthrown and treated with ignominy as a traitor at the moment when he had decided to resist Napoleon : it was his plan to remove the king to Seville , out of the way of the French , which set off the Tumult of Aranjuez . |
| 27 | Much of his conversation , uttered in the flat voice which set off the originality of the content , conveyed in this way infinite nuances of banter and irony . |
| 28 | The Voluntary and Private Sectors Services Unit will shortly produce a standard service agreement which sets out the contract conditions . |
| 29 | The Royal Society for Nature Conservation has now threatened to take English Nature to court under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act , which sets out the framework for SSSIs . |
| 30 | Erm I have laid round the table this morning , and I hope you have it , a single sheet of paper which sets out the component differences between the projections and the County Council . |