Example sentences of "[pron] set [pn reflx] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also on Dec. 23 , leading intellectuals set up the first independent human rights monitoring group , the Forum for the Defence of Human Rights , which set itself the goal of the release of all political prisoners . |
| 2 | Among those who set themselves the task of creating a hostel for orthodox children was Sybil Wulwick . |
| 3 | In 1 we set ourselves the problem of accounting for intuitions that some stretches of language are coherent and others are not . |
| 4 | We set ourselves the task of uncovering the principles behind our feeling that certain stretches of language are meaningful and unified : that they have the quality of coherence . |
| 5 | They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques . |
| 6 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 7 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 8 | Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order . |
| 9 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |
| 10 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |