Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] set [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My job as deputy chief whip is to get MPs to pull their weight , so I thought I 'd better set an example . ’ |
| 2 | She took the men 's cheers as somehow directed at herself , at her person , not at the food alone , but unlike the chorus that might greet the appearance of some women of the town , they did not place her in danger , and she allowed herself a small smile in acknowledgement , and came forward to set the dish down . |
| 3 | The prosecution says Bailey smashed a window in the hangar and climbed inside to set the fire . |
| 4 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 5 | And that plane went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 6 | What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 7 | Once elected , he chose instead to set the country 's finances in order . |
| 8 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 9 | But Cambridge City Council 's environmental health department warned that the success of the appeal did not set a precedent , and that the court had been careful to reiterate its concern at the ‘ grave breaches of the Food Hygiene Regulations ’ . |
| 10 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 11 | He did not set the lamp there that way . |
| 12 | I did n't set a deadline for that though did I ? |
| 13 | The film itself did n't set the world alight , but critics and movie-makers were impressed with the young stars . |
| 14 | ‘ It might be reasonable to assume that Mr Goodhaven did n't set the trap himself , to persuade me of his innocence , ’ he said , writing ‘ Henry Goodhaven ’ on the list . |
| 15 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 16 | However , I 'm afraid Colin James got his wires crossed a bit regarding our catering vehicle , so perhaps I had better set the record straight . |
| 17 | The NHS in Scotland , for example , had already set a waiting list target of 18 months compared to the two-year target adopted for England and Wales . |
| 18 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 19 | And now his tlvsn apprnce ( his mind sheered off identifying it more fully even to himself ) had finally set the seal on it all . |
| 20 | Unlike other republics , Serbia had still set no date for elections , which were thought unlikely to take place before the end of 1990 . |
| 21 | No one was sure whether he had deliberately set a trap , or whether it was merely a chance remark that brought about such astounding results . |
| 22 | One of them had also set a maximum on the number of hours that would be offered , so that whilst its regular labour force was largely full-time , its temporary labour force worked no more than three-quarter time . |
| 23 | He had also set the cat among the pigeons on the environmental issue . |
| 24 | And there was double delight for the Irish contingent as Ronnie Smyth 's under-16 squad had earlier set the ball rolling by overturning a 2–0 deficit to beat the Welsh 3–2 , thanks to a Colin Hanna hat-trick of short corner conversions in the last 15 minutes . |
| 25 | In bright afternoon sunshine , Chip Beck , the American Ryder Cup player , forged firmly to the front , overtaking Brad Bryant , who had earlier set the target with a 69 and a total of 136 . |
| 26 | He raised the main , lashing the tiller bar , and ran forward to set the jib . |
| 27 | It seems ironic that where , in the eighteenth century , novelists and architects alike look out of their elegant windows on to the cottages of the poor as pleasing little features in the landscape , the Victorians , for whom the dwellings of the middle class tended increasingly to set the standard , should view the great house itself from that perspective — from the outside , as the focus for a landscape , much as the eighteenth-century painters had done ( Fig. 24 ) . |