Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The government has set out in the Patient 's Charter the principles on which the NHS is based . |
| 5 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 12 | My husband and daughter decide to set off up the hill ‘ to look for America ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I remembered setting out over the Crib Goch to do the Snowdon Horseshoe and reaching Lliwedd . |
| 17 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 21 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 22 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 23 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 24 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 25 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 26 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 27 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 28 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 29 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 30 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |