Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 2 | The other rabbit evidently had no fear that they might set upon him , hrair to one , and kill him . |
| 3 | Ray Noorda , 67 , chief executive of Novell Inc , has given an assurance that he will set in train the process of finding a successor to run the company ‘ in the next year ’ . |
| 4 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
| 5 | And he would set to work to cover reams of paper with still lifes , boats , fishermen , figures , birds and clouds , completing a sixty-foot decoration in one day . |