Example sentences of "[conj] he was set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | when he was set upon outside The Steam Train pub in Cheney Manor road . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 6 | 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 . |