Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 About six months ago I set up a 48″ × 15″ × 12″ tank for African cichlids .
2 Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December .
3 Having made such progress in Sheffield , I felt it was time to move back to home ground , so I set up a CHE group in Rotherham .
4 Character oozes from it , and I am content to spend some time studying its many features before I set up a rod .
5 ‘ Firstly I set up a still-life — say a bottle , vase and fruit — classic objects .
6 I set up the bottle on the bedside table and a fresh pack of cigarettes .
7 Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal .
8 To allow time to sort myself out we decided to sack this fish in the deep margin under some cover while I set up the camera equipment and finished a somewhat cold coffee .
9 Two years since I set up the glass and started to make marks on it .
10 I set down the watering can and start for the vegetable plot .
11 On the way back , I set down the grassbox , unplug the sprinkler and coil the hosepipe ( which Pa , being always so busy , has obviously forgotten ) in even circles around my hand and elbow , then go to the shed and lay it carefully over the two dowelling pegs .
12 I set out a position which argues that there may be too much and also too little evidence for the existence of God to make religious belief a tenable option .
13 The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it .
14 I set out the Government 's objectives in a speech in this House before I went to Maastricht .
15 I set out the sunset quickly starting with the yellow around the sun and growing darker and more towards blue as I moved out from the centre , using a mixture of water and ox gall to make the paint stay wet .
16 Briefed comprehensively by my fastidious fiancee on ironing strategy — ‘ Never start from the front/make sure you give the cuffs a decent jet of steam … not like that , you chump ! ’ — I set about a pile of shirts , mainly cotton but one silk , and a range of trousers .
17 So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters .
18 I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do .
19 Now then , how do I set up the board ?
20 I set up a solicitor two months after I 'd finished the the assignment .
21 I set out the views of the membership below .
22 These development strategies should seek to preserve an acceptable balance of the various priorities , now in my position statement I set out the role and general advantages of new settlements as part of a development strategy in satisfying housing and employment needs of an area .
23 I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it .
24 This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis .
25 So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in .
26 And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal .
27 They asked me to set up a buffet for a press launch , then they said it was for me ! ’
28 This option enables you to set up a Charge Code for use with LIFESPAN .
29 You were staying at the Imperial when I phoned you to set up the interview last week .
30 A brand new series of buyers ' guides — we help you set up a specialist tank or system each month , show our choice of equipment , and let you know what else is suitable on the market and how much it all costs .
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