Example sentences of "he [vb past] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 2 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 3 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 4 | As a teenager , he helped set up a cricket club . |
| 5 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | By 1780 John Browne could make one of the principal virtues of the expensive academy for gentlemen 's sons that he proposed to set up a total absence of corporal punishment . |
| 7 | When this fell through he decided to set up a family business and , with his two brothers , established a nursery and contracting firm in Windermere . |
| 8 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 9 | Although Maurice was not a Romanist nor an archaeologist — his interest has always been in medieval and later houses — he had set up a training school at Lincoln with Philip Corder as director . |
| 10 | Since leaving in March , he had set up a private school in St. Peter 's Parsonage , with about sixty pupils from his old school . |
| 11 | In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization . |
| 12 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 13 | He had set up a 10-strong Renewable Energy Advisory Group ( REAG ) . |
| 14 | He had set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books which he saved up to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 15 | As a result , he had set up a meeting of regional engineers , himself , and the deputy inspector of railways . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , in February 1992 , then UK Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley announced that he had set up a steering group of leading businessmen to consider a prestigious new National Quality Award for the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) . |
| 18 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |
| 19 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 20 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 21 | He had set out the costly paper , ink and pens with geometric precision on the table and was setting a stool for the scribe to sit on . |
| 22 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 23 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 24 | Gallie summarised the views of Blauner , Mallet , and Naville because he wished to set up an empirical test of their theses . |
| 25 | Not because he wanted to set up a model village , but because he saw that with the employment he was generating at Bournville out in the Worcestershire countryside , speculative builders would come in and put up very inferior dwellings if he did n't take a hand . |
| 26 | He wanted to set up a new-enterprise in New York , a law firm advising immigrants . |