Example sentences of "[pers pn] have set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 2 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 3 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 4 | And er I 've set the bucket as well . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've set the table outside on the terrace , ’ Fernando told her , stepping through from the kitchen beyond . |
| 6 | I have to set the record straight . |
| 7 | This year , I have set the Employment Service the task of placing 1.3 million people in jobs — 5,000 every working day — and it is achieving that target . |
| 8 | Her significance as Prime Minister is that she has set an example ; by pushing to the outer limits of her authority , making decisions with small groups of ministers and advisers , and closely involving herself in Whitehall promotions and the policies of departments , ‘ the repertoire of Prime Ministerial tasks has been extended ’ . |
| 9 | Now you 've set a budget which is below the level of at which the Oxfordshire County Council would be rate capped , or Poll Tax capped . |
| 10 | So you that one second time instructions from that point unlikely very very unlikely so you 've set the scene with a good strong step one , so looking at each indiv individual part of the open , which parts do you think you could leave out ? |
| 11 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 12 | Now she had to let her husband know , oh-so-artlessly , that she had set a guard on Marion that he could n't break without scandal . |
| 13 | If you had set the pitch of the blades using a pitch gauge this will , of course , upset your careful adjustments . |
| 14 | You allow people to say what they like , write it down , you have to set a time limit because people get tired , it is a very sort of , it takes a lot of energy to do this , and concentrate on it . |
| 15 | So you have to set the boundaries for friends , in just the same way that you do for parents . |
| 16 | If you have to set the commands manually in either the config.sys or the autoexec.bat files , you will have to use either the Edlin , or Edit commands . |
| 17 | If you have set a strategy on the lines described in Chapter 7 , the way to begin to judge whether you have a good advertisement is to go to your target group , or at least a few of them , and find out if the ad affects them in the way you intended . |
| 18 | While one can not assert unequivocally that determination will win , in the balance of life you can alter direction more easily on the move than you can if you are static , and if you have set the direction in this way it will almost alter itself . |
| 19 | Yesterday we made our mind up to have that one and we 've set a sign some papers so |
| 20 | So if you smash your glasses , it 's down to you So let's say we 've set a plan up twelve thousand pounds per annum benefit , a thousand pounds a month , yes . |
| 21 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 22 | Well members of the jury it is because we 've set the course that acting upon in itself would not have been enough . |
| 23 | We 've set the target of the year 2000 to make all rights of way accessible and the action pack should help to achieve that . |
| 24 | In fact you 'll find we 've set the stage for you — with our team of professionals dedicated to turning every meeting into a major success . |
| 25 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 26 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 27 | We had set a target of 50 tonnes per month maximum of caustic lost to drain and quickly met and indeed exceeded that . |
| 28 | The tasks we had set the Rottweiler have become lost and very rarely will you find a Rottweiler today herding cattle anywhere in the world , although most could still accomplish this task if required . |
| 29 | Against this we have to set the disadvantage that re-investigation might come to be considered as a disciplinary review . |
| 30 | But nonetheless , I think we as county councillors can be proud of the fact that we have set a spending target for committees , we are prepared to allow the officers to manage their departments inside the targets that have been set , and that does mean that they have to look at er , what they 're spending and create priorities , and and I as a councillor am not in the least bit impressed by arguments that paper clips have increased by five and a half percent this year , and that felt l er pe felt line erm , pens have gone up by seventeen and a half percent , I think that 's largely irrelevant consideration , we 're not in the business of projecting budget , we 're in the business of providing money to deliver high quality services to the people of Wiltshire . |