Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , after one false start , when Edward assumed ( wrongly ) that Helen would not come , they set off in late November '95 for a short walk to Wimbledon , followed four days later by a trip to Croydon . |
| 2 | Even so , by the end of April 20,000 Kurdish refugees a day were returning to havens set up in northern Iraq by Western troops — not without some hesitation , as when Kurdish peshmerga declared the haven at Zakho unsafe because there were still Iraqi police in the town . |
| 3 | It is looking to open further offices abroad too , to complement the distributor network it has set up across Western Europe , the Pacific Rim and Australia . |
| 4 | The auction raised £780 for the fund set up by 23-year-old Beverley a little over six months ago and was the first fund-raising event since her death on February 24 . |
| 5 | Merton is the second of two major ventures in the recruiting business which have been set up by entrepreneurial Michael Silverman . |
| 6 | SPLASH star Daryl Hannah fell in love with John F Kennedy Junior on a blind date set up by step-dad Jerry Wexler , friends have revealed . |
| 7 | A joint government and opposition commission had been set up in late September with the aim of preventing a repeat of the first-round chaos ; however , two opposition parties withdrew from the commission on Oct. 11 . |
| 8 | We have set up in New Scotland Yard arrangements to co-ordinate the activities of all our police forces in the fight against terrorism . |
| 9 | Clearly , in order to save some money , the carousel has been set up in downtown Oslo , about ten kilometres away . |
| 10 | The US government had hoped that some form of non-Communist coalition government could be set up in post-war China , and General Marshall had led a mission to achieve this end in 1946 . |
| 11 | Firms that have employed women in this way are , for example , the American concerns , the maquiladoras , that have been set up in northern Mexico near the US border . |
| 12 | Western PTTs are setting up in Eastern Europe , often initially to support their multinational clients ' operations there . |
| 13 | The typical North memo , according to General Galvin , implied that ‘ a whole lot more is going to happen that was really intended to happen in there ’ ; a colleague said they were North 's equivalent of a Potemkin Village , set down in unreal Washington . |
| 14 | * The Left Bloc , set up in late January 1992 , comprised the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia ( KSCM " led by Jiri Svoboda ) , the Democratic Left Movement , the Left Alliance and the Movement for Social Justice . |