Example sentences of "had set [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , Tom Johnston , a former Labour minister ( who had set up the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board and was now its chairman ) , had little interest in matters south of the border , and attended only intermittently . |
| 2 | The paper indignantly rejected charges that it had set up the case which had , it seemed then , consigned Jagger and Richard to jail , but outrage at the sentences had touched liberal consciences , and galvanized youth inhabiting that grey area between music and social protest . |
| 3 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 4 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 5 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 6 | Just before his departure , Ellis had set up the position for prop Harmon 's try . |
| 7 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 8 | Dr Russell had set up the monitor when Belinda returned . |
| 9 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 10 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 11 | Months before the CPRS report came to ministers , therefore , we had reviewed the options and indeed in July 1982 I had set out the Government 's position , after consultation with the Treasury . |
| 12 | In 1891 , in an essay called ‘ The moral philosopher and the moral life ’ , William James had set out the essence of the realist 's case . |
| 13 | Though his yelling had not moved the stones it had set off the dogs and one against the other they barked and bayed , an unusual salute as he entered the bounds of the sheer-sided , heavy-wooded , spectacular wilderness . |
| 14 | She had set down the candle . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Zuno had been convicted at an earlier trial but Rafeedie had set aside the verdict on the grounds that the prosecution had referred in closing arguments to matters not in evidence . |