Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 2 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 3 | But he , or she , does need to be within striking distance of yourself , especially when you have set out on the tricky waters of the novel . |
| 4 | Very few of the proposals that we have set out in the preceding sections will be successful unless Britain is prepared to work in partnership within the Community . |
| 5 | In 1967 the government accepted many of the economic principles we have set out in the last two chapters . |
| 6 | In the meantime , all the genuine members who 've stayed on are livin' in the tented village they 've set up in the grounds , around the burned out house . |
| 7 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 8 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 9 | The operating agreement it has set up with the Manchester Metrolink — due to start running along several sections of former BR track today — could provide a good foundation . |
| 10 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 11 | If one thinks dialectically , so Hegel believed , it was possible , for the it was possible , he had done it , it 's set out in the Encyclopedia , his Encyclopedia , to see the whole system of reality as one articulated , logical system in which everything has its orderly and appointed place . |