Example sentences of "[noun prp] had set [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it .
2 Burun had set the target back in its original position , an easy shot .
3 Sandy Lyle had set the fashion for getting home in two from there when he won in 1988 and though Couples did not , like Lyle , make a birdie , he was only a whisker away from it .
4 Frau Schmidt had set a table in front of the open fire .
5 Canadian veteran Grant Connell had set the stage for Nestor in more ways than one .
6 The plea bargain agreed between Exxon , the Justice Department and the state of Alaska had set the company 's total liability at $1 billion : $900m of this was a civil settlement to meet costs incurred by the government in cleaning up the 11m gallons of oil spilt into Prince William Sound ; the other $100m was a fine , payable to the Treasury , to settle the four criminal charges .
7 … I had done this process before , once , but not under pressure , when Aunt Viv had set a combination on a new suitcase and then forgotten it … one-four-eight , one-four-nine … my face sweating , my fingers slipping on the tiny wheels from haste … one-five-zero , one-five-one …
8 Now Alvar Fañez Minaya had set the host in order and while the Bishop Don Hieronymo and Gil Diaz led away the body of the Cid , and Doña Ximena , and the baggage , he fell upon the Moors .
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