Example sentences of "had set [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | this was the day that members of our group had set for a sponsored walk , the length of the old Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 2 | From 1771 onwards a series of codes for different provinces , beginning with Silesia , had set for the first time clear official limits to what the lords could demand of their peasants , especially in terms of labour-services . |
| 3 | The older woman 's face had set into a white mask . |
| 4 | For some reason it was restful to watch him lay the crochet-bordered cloth cornerwise on the polished table just so ; arrange the tea-tray , and bring in delicate , perfectly symmetrical sandwiches , and the Victoria sponge which , under his wife 's direction , he had made so beautifully and had set upon a spotless lace doily precisely in the centre of the dish . |
| 5 | Among the actual owners of the horses , disbelief had set in the quickest . |