Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 2 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 3 | Control of your performance is achieved by the combination of attitude and power , and it is essential that you should know just what the attitude and power is — in various configurations — for every performance you might need to set up in the aircraft you normally fly . |
| 4 | The operating agreement it has set up with the Manchester Metrolink — due to start running along several sections of former BR track today — could provide a good foundation . |
| 5 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 6 | The government has set out in the Patient 's Charter the principles on which the NHS is based . |
| 7 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 8 | Thirteen ships , led by two of Earl Siward 's , continued north past the estuary and were last seen setting round for the mouth of the Tay . |
| 9 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 10 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 11 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 12 | He intends to set up as a PR and communications consultant , freelance writer and designer . |
| 13 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 14 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 15 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 16 | Moreover the political parties would have to set up in every one of them the organization required for the preparation of their lists : an obligation they would be very unlikely to contemplate with enthusiasm . |
| 17 | My husband and daughter decide to set off up the hill ‘ to look for America ’ . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the new kind of assignment resembles the equitable assignment in being subject to equities , i.e. to claims or defences which the debtor or other person might have set up against the assignor . |
| 19 | TDS.3 was asked to set about considering a means of taking a Jeep ( 3,000lb ) or even a Valentine tank ( 14 tons ! ) into battle under a detachable rotorhead ! |
| 20 | What I have tried to set out in the last few pages is an understanding of ‘ meaning theism ’ which embraces a rather larger area than Ayer allows for . |
| 21 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 22 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 23 | I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd . |
| 24 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 25 | You 've set up as a designer in your own right , Gary ! ’ |
| 26 | In the meantime , all the genuine members who 've stayed on are livin' in the tented village they 've set up in the grounds , around the burned out house . |
| 27 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's terrible that all these quacks can come along without proper qualifications , ’ Lipsky complained , forgetting that he himself had set up as a dentist without qualifications , there being as yet no legal requirement for special training as there was for doctors . |
| 29 | Jake , by contrast , quite independently of his father , who had also made his fortune in the building industry , had set up as a building contractor on his own . |
| 30 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |