Example sentences of "[pron] had set [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 2 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 3 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 4 | They had set themselves a pace that could not survive 90 minutes and , sure enough , began to sag . |
| 5 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 6 | In retirement he had set himself the task of making a replica Tomkin long-case clock . |
| 7 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |