Example sentences of "they set [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So I teach them to set up the carriages as if there were not a card in . |
2 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
3 | They set up the pageant in a village street , and not one cottager came out to greet them . |
4 | They set up the mills to husk the rice and charter the ships to transport it to the best markets — then sit back . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Retreating from press and other media distractions , they set about the search for the single . |
7 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |
8 | 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 , |
9 | The , the , the anomaly here this is when they set up the C C T legislation , all the services contracted out had to make a of return that 's a profit in any language and that to me is a commercial decision and should never have been exempted from the very start anyway . |