Example sentences of "had set [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few ordinary citizens could afford to pay the 300 roubles which Kirov had set as a starting price for the most basic of suits . |
| 2 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |
| 3 | They had set upon the turnkey , knocking him unconscious , and then gathering his keys , made for the gate . |
| 4 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 5 | Urgency went from his wing-beats , the course he had set from the Park so many weeks before now weakened and drifted . |