Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 2 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 3 | And she was set on her mission of kindness . |
| 4 | When David overcame the Ammonites , we are told ‘ he took the crown of the king off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were priceless stones in it ; and it was set on David 's head ’ . |
| 5 | It could not be taken along with poor relief , and those with criminal records were excluded ; it was only available at seventy , not sixty ; and it was set at a very mean level , a mere five shillings , below the bare minimum which Seebohm Rowntree calculated was then needed for subsistence . |
| 6 | One petal held a beautiful , almost translucent pear-shaped dewdrop and it was set in a crystal vase that looked as substantial as a spider 's web . |
| 7 | He would n't pay good money because it was set with spinels instead of rubies , so the man took it back . ’ |
| 8 | Canongate had its own Tolbooth , which has survived because it was set into the building line instead of blocking the thoroughfare . |
| 9 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
| 10 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and erm it was the first one I went to , but I must say that of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I 've felt most erm comfortable and happy in . |
| 11 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 12 | His car was vandalised several times and he was forced to move his business after it was set on fire . |
| 13 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 14 | Julie Jones was taking five-month-old Steffine to her grandmother 's house when she was set upon by a gang of four men . |
| 15 | Other stories of bystanders who suffered included that of a man going home from his work in a bookmaker 's shop in the Waterside when he was set upon and batoned . |
| 16 | when he was set upon outside The Steam Train pub in Cheney Manor road . |
| 17 | He was returning from a night out celebrating his first wage packet after nine months on the dole when he was set upon at Didcot Parkway Railway Station . |
| 18 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 19 | Mr George Daszczuk was pinned to the ground and mauled for 15 minutes as he was set upon by the two dogs , which had chewed their way through the wooden door of a garage they were guarding . |