Example sentences of "had [adv] set [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Stych had just set down the last of her bags of groceries on the kitchen counter and begun to unpack them , when there was the sound of a heavy truck drawing up outside her house . |
| 2 | Resort officials had deliberately set off a number of small avalanches on Saturday morning as a normal safety procedure . |
| 3 | The tennis equipment specialists , Head , had brought some racquets and accessories along and had also set up a ‘ speed-gun ’ to record service speeds . |
| 4 | Catherine had barely set out the pens and Pencils on her desk , when the editor pushed open the door . |
| 5 | Other colleagues working in schools or adult training centres from our authority were also asked to participate , as together we had previously set up a voluntary curriculum development group to look at authority-wide provision for young people and adults with severe learning difficulties . |
| 6 | Amnesty called on the government ( which had recently set up a human rights task force and an inquiry into alleged atrocities ) to admit the extent of abuses in the past , including its own role , in order to clear the atmosphere for a fresh approach on human rights observance . |
| 7 | When Glamorgan College of Technology , the future Polytechnic of Wales , was visited by the CNAA in 1967 , it had recently set up an Academic Board , and the visiting party felt that ‘ very belatedly the College is developing towards an academic structure ’ and towards the kind of academic independence now ‘ established for some time in most other Colleges ’ . |
| 8 | If the police had never set up the jewellers shop , they would , in my judgment , have been doing the same thing , though of course they would not have been doing it in that shop , at that time . |
| 9 | [ Before du Pre 's death in 1987 , he had quietly set up a second household in Paris with the former wife of violinist Gideon Kramer . ] |