Example sentences of "set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 2 | She had set down the candle . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 4 | In it was set down the ‘ The Fundamental Purpose Of The United States ’ and ‘ The Fundamental Design Of The Kremlin' together with their ‘ Underlying Conflict In The Realm Of Ideas And Values ’ . |
| 5 | This downhill was set down the long-established OK course from Bellewarde to La Daille ; the two in February will be on the new Olympic piste carved down the precipitate north-east face on to the very heart of the village . |
| 6 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 7 | In turn , similar financial disciplines and targets could be set down the line , ‘ rewarding and punishing individual operations according to risk performance ’ . |
| 8 | During Ministry 's set tonight the earth started flying , along with the bodies . |
| 9 | But there is little civic pride in Maan that its actions should have set off the train of events . |
| 10 | The blue top and bottom trims not only set off the looks of the tank , but also obviate the need for a layer of polystyrene under the tank . |
| 11 | Her exhaust also set off the colliery 's underground fire alarm after simmering near the down-shaft ventilation screens ! |
| 12 | Though his yelling had not moved the stones it had set off the dogs and one against the other they barked and bayed , an unusual salute as he entered the bounds of the sheer-sided , heavy-wooded , spectacular wilderness . |
| 13 | Fragments of rock , and of Mait , flung backwards by the blast , also set off the other bomb and in moments , several tens of yards of ceiling had collapsed in . |
| 14 | We repair to the kitchen and blithely set off the burglar alarm searching for the cat to cuddle . |
| 15 | ‘ You mean I 've set off the alarms ? |
| 16 | On the following day the jury signed a verdict that the 1277 perambulation still set forth the true bounds . |
| 17 | Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms . |
| 18 | Many people wish to plan their funerals in advance , and to know that they have set aside the money to pay for them : |
| 19 | The present writer , who in another district also watched him speak , promptly set aside the plan to sleep away from home that night . |
| 20 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |
| 21 | that would be to completely undermine the effect of article eighty five , we simply would n't be able to raise our shield at all , we would have a counterclaim but at which point since we had no of what erm , for example as one of it 's principal defences , defences , erm we would say we 've made the plaintiffs case very much easier , they 've now got all our money , we 're bankrupt , we ca n't pursue our claim because we 've got no money to pursue it with in article eighty five would of been completely undermined because we would not of had a realistic opportunity to raise article eighty five as a defence and your Lordship to do that would of had to not only set aside the counterclaim as a set off , but also to set aside the entire eighty five defence to stayed it or to have set it aside |
| 22 | Your intruder alarm must be set whenever the Home is left without a responsible person in attendance . |
| 23 | Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet . |
| 24 | The British Lung Foundation has set up the ‘ Breathe Easy Club ’ for people living with lung problems , their families and friends . |
| 25 | It was a triumph that also set up the Kiwis nicely for a surprise win over the seventh-seeded Italians . |
| 26 | In the US , he asserts , the government has realised that legislation is not enough and has set up the Computer Expert Resource Team . |
| 27 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 28 | When Edward Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister , he at once set up the first privately financed think-tank in the Soviet Union , the Foreign Policy Association . |
| 29 | Just before his departure , Ellis had set up the position for prop Harmon 's try . |
| 30 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |