Example sentences of "they set [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set up the pageant in a village street , and not one cottager came out to greet them . |
| 2 | When the Countryside Commission received a bequest of over £300,000 they set up the Countryside Trust which is being used to make grants to assist fundraising for projects . |
| 3 | Retreating from press and other media distractions , they set about the search for the single . |
| 4 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |
| 5 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |