Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
2 | Panic has set in as the league 's Draconian restructuring unfolds with four clubs relegated from Division One and seven from Division Two . |
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 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
6 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
7 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
8 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
9 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
10 | The government has set out in the Patient 's Charter the principles on which the NHS is based . |
11 | There should be some recognition of the fact that the programmes that the Government have set up in the network of jobcentres , including restart , job clubs , job interview guarantees and all the programmes that they deliver through jobcentres or training and enterprise councils , help to alleviate the misery that comes with loss of employment . |
12 | A TRIO of Cleveland pensioners have set off on the trip of a lifetime to the bulbfields of Holland . |
13 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
14 | Since then , 110 enterprises have set up in the centre 's offices , retail outlets and workshops . |