Example sentences of "[noun prp] had set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In July 1338 Edward had set out on campaign in Flanders , leaving the realm in the charge of a keeper , the eight-year-old duke of Cornwall , and a council , on which Richard Bintworth , bishop of London , and Robert Wodehouse , archdeacon of Richmond , sat as chancellor and treasurer respectively .
2 When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs .
3 By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ .
4 Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table .
5 Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers .
6 Headed by Iqbal Riza , a Pakistani UN political officer , and Philippe Texier , a French senior appellate court judge , this was the first mission of its type the UN had set up inside a member country [ see p. 38187 ] .
7 Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent .
8 Through it the legions of Claudius and Nero had set off on their march along Watling Street nearly two thousand years ago .
9 Before Father Kendrick had set off for his new city parish — racial mix , boys ' club , mothers ' union , young people 's fellowship ; the proper challenge for a mildly high-church , ambitious young priest with one eye on a mitre — he had had a brief word about Beryl McBride .
10 The success of the factory that Perkin had set up near Harrow encouraged thoughts of a similar enterprise near the Elephant & Castle .
11 On Thursday 23 May 1974 , little more than a week after Jinky had set out on his transatlantic crossing , the player was the focus of a controversial legal wrangle when a judge at Airdrie Sheriff Court postponed a trial involving the Celtic winger to allow him to prepare for Scotland 's forthcoming World Cup campaign in Germany .
12 William had set off on Saturday to walk between Ben Dearg and Ben Alligin Hills .
13 Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors .
14 ‘ Yes , I brought her the tray Mrs Porter had set out for her in the kitchen .
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