Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 2 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 3 | Rosalind Wingrove , education committee chairman , said it had set up a panel to consider how best to consult parents . |
| 4 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 5 | They had set up their mortar about twenty yards from our trench , and periodically fired off a couple of bombs in the direction of the German positions . |
| 6 | In August the Agitprop section of the Twelfth Party Conference had set up a commission to start a state subsidy for the politically reliable press . |
| 7 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 8 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 9 | While Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century-Fox had set up their own production companies to produce British pictures , other US distributors relied on local suppliers . |
| 10 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 11 | In a further move , Chevron said it had set up a $5billion agreement with international banks to provide a fighting fund to fend off its rival . |
| 12 | First of all , DeFries , by this time , had set up his headquarters in New York although David was still headquartered in London . |
| 13 | The original shareholders were chiefly entrepreneurs who had set up their own firms during the previous half century , such as Cornelius Vanderbilt , John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie . |
| 14 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |
| 15 | The Spanish Medical Aid Committee reviewing the situation at the end of the first year had sent out forty-seven ambulances , eighty trained personnel , had constructed two base hospitals and several field hospitals and had set up a convalescent home — the Ralph Fox Memorial Home in memory of a well-known author and critic who had died in action in Spain during 1936 . |
| 16 | In collaboration with Nigel Neilson , a colourful former SAS officer who had set up his own public relations company , they decided to ‘ sell ’ the royal family . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 18 | Just before his departure , Ellis had set up the position for prop Harmon 's try . |
| 19 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 20 | Mr Tancock , who operates from Mannington Park in Swindon , refused to say if anyone had ever received loans from North Star , or to say why he had set up Global Finance . |
| 21 | Mr Newman , of Emu Close , Heath and Reach , Beds , had set up home with Miss Thomas a month ago . |
| 22 | By announcing investigations all over Britain it had set up a series of confrontations with the public . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Inspired by Talleyrand , the founder of the Dynasty had set up a number of high sounding offices such as Vice Grand Elector and Vice Constable , and to these gothic absurdities were added the ceremonies of the lever and coucher , echoes of the ancien régime . |
| 25 | With Syrian approval , the captain of the town 's ‘ defence committee ’ had set up office in the telephone exchange . |
| 26 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 27 | The success of the factory that Perkin had set up near Harrow encouraged thoughts of a similar enterprise near the Elephant & Castle . |
| 28 | During the liberation struggle , the two liberation movements , the Zimbabwe African Peoples ' Union ( ZAPU ) and the Zimbabwe African National Union ( ZANU ) , had set up some education programmes for fighters and for refugees . |
| 29 | He had set up in practice on his own about nine years before the competition , and his most important executed work up until then had been the Tudor style Royal Infirmary at Dundee ( 1852–5 ) , which he had won in competition . |
| 30 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |