Example sentences of "[noun] set [adv prt] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | To achieve this , Claudius set up two client kingdoms in the south-east , one with Prasutagus as King of the Iceni , and the other with Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus as King of the two tribes , the Regini and the Atrebates . |
2 | So Gloria and Maudie set off one way , towards West Ferry Road , while Ruth and Sarah went in the other direction . |
3 | About a year ago , Eltec set up 15 Service Centres for the Public , CAPs , which deal solely with repairs for anything from personal computers and mobile phones to Nintendos . |
4 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
5 | Last year the bureau set up 69 teacher exchanges in Europe and 129 in the US , and established 127 new school links with foreign countries . |
6 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |