Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 32 | He set up his school in Edinburgh and in 1838 graduates of that school were made eligible to serve as army veterinary surgeons . |
| 33 | He set up a Christmas Carnival , taking over the entire St James 's hall and theatre complex , putting on side shows and trade exhibits . |
| 34 | John failed dismally , however , when he set up any business with a partner . |
| 35 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |
| 36 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 37 | Dublin Castle , like most things in Ireland , was somewhat dilapidated , but here he set up his new court . |
| 38 | Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc . |
| 39 | He set up in practice in the copper-mining town of Hettstedt but soon discovered that he was out of sympathy with the barbaric medical practices of his time which often showed little compassion for , or understanding of , the patient . |
| 40 | He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera . |
| 41 | He set up a list of twelve components of skill , including such items as ‘ mental effort ’ , ‘ dexterity ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , and ‘ decision making ’ , and a set of four broad levels of mechanisation . |
| 42 | Chatfield 's ball-handling and kicking skills saw Rovers race to an 11-0 lead in the opening 25 minutes as he set up tries for Aussie centre David Liddiard and second rower Andy Thompson . |
| 43 | On his return to Britain , he set up as a portrait painter in both London and Edinburgh , purveying the Grand Manner to all buyers , but even then it was a restrained baroque , tempered by Ramsay 's own unmelodramatic personality . |
| 44 | ‘ That this deal he set up with the Iranians through Nadirpur — part of the arrangement was that Philippe be released — in return for French arms . ’ |
| 45 | Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener . |
| 46 | He set up parish schools and to aid his clergy he wrote an exposition of the Church Catechism , called The Practice of Divine Love . |
| 47 | He set up a beehive barricade as bulldozers moved in to dig a pipeline near his land . |
| 48 | And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out . |
| 49 | The former Champion amateur rider was associated with top horses Browne 's Gazette and The Mighty Mac , but everything turned sour when he set up as a trainer in 1990 . |
| 50 | Over the next few years Yakovlev continued to design and build a variety of successful single-engined biplanes and monoplanes and in July 1934 he was given a derelict bed factory on Moscow Leningradski Prospekt where he set up his own OKB and this has remained the headquarters ever since and also now holds the Museum . |
| 51 | He set up an experiment , in laboratory conditions , where volunteers were asked to co-operate in a ‘ learning experiment ’ . |
| 52 | He set up a test area in the Hawthorne Plant of the General Electric Company , where telephone relays were made . |
| 53 | He set up a select committee with the job of trying to devise a political settlement to the problem of Tamil separatism ; but it got nowhere . |
| 54 | She said Mr Venables had turned Tottenham into a family club , adding : ‘ He always talks to us and he set up a creche at the club . ’ |
| 55 | The loudspeaker radio system he set up became a great success and became a model for others throughout Argentina . |
| 56 | Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property . |
| 57 | He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it . |
| 58 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 59 | While Jacob was dreaming of Jacob 's Ladder at Beth-El , his head was pillowed on a rock which upon waking he set up as a holy monument . |
| 60 | Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie had defied an agreement between the Wardens of the Marches that no building should be erected by either side within the confines of the Debatable Land when he set up a tower above the Esk . |