Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] set [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Blunt and David Wilson set up the Chester-le-Street win despite a 5–49 return from Mark Storey . |
| 2 | The old pals reunion at White Hart Lane … that 's Spurs v Swindon finished as it started all square … former Town favourite David Kerslake set up the Spurs goal for Jason Dozzell … and then another old County Ground hero Colin Calderwood went and gave away a penalty … it looked like a handball at first but Calderwood was guilty of pushing … |
| 3 | A century from professional Raman Lamba set up the total of for two with Sam Gilliland making an unbeaten 74 . |
| 4 | In 1881 the Crystal Palace Company set up the Crystal Palace School of Gardening , and Milner became its principal . |
| 5 | Mr Lang set up the working party in March 1991 after the Government rejected calls for national parks in Scotland . |
| 6 | In 1974 , for example , we learned that ‘ For the first time in a century and a half , since the great Tory reformer Robert Peel set up the Metropolitan police areas of our cities are becoming unsafe for peaceful citizens by night , and some even by day ’ — from no less an authority than that great Tory reformer Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 7 | In a statement Mr Patten set out the place of sex education in society and the vital importance of teaching the teaching of moral values . |
| 8 | The original church here was taken over as a convent church when San Carlo Borromeo set up the convent for girls who had been orphaned by the plague . |
| 9 | Stephen Wheatcroft set out the case for airline deregulation in the November — December issue of TRANSPORT . |
| 10 | In 1985 Gateshead CAB set up the Refugee Specialist Advice Project which helps refugees , asylum-seekers , and those with exceptional circumstances , to remain in the UK . |
| 11 | In September 1973 , the Insight team of The Sunday Times set out the story of the seven arrests and the dropped charges for five murders . |
| 12 | Julian Williams set up the ruck , and Stephens sent Nigel Davies over , Stephens converting . |
| 13 | Julian Williams set up the ruck , and Stephens sent Nigel Davies over , Stephens converting . |
| 14 | But the Mobbs had a panic button in the house , and Mrs Mobbs set off the alarm . |
| 15 | While Auntie Lou set out the food , he sat on a flat rock to recover and talked about the old days . |
| 16 | Steve and Joanne de Nobriga set up the refuge in mid-1989 . |
| 17 | At a recent conference in London industrial guru Sir John Harvey Jones set out the reasons why . |
| 18 | In December Secretary Paget set out the position with gloomy — and inaccurate figures . |
| 19 | Fearing that Germany might win the race to develop this weapon , the US government set up the Manhattan Project , costing $2 billion and involving some 150 000 people , including most of the world 's most outstanding physicists . |
| 20 | ‘ This has the making of becoming the biggest bureaucratic complexity since Lord Woolton set up the rationing system , ’ BR chairman Sir Bob Reid wrote after the white paper was published . |
| 21 | Isaac and Austin Copley set up the rail users group over 2 years ago to complain about poor service on the Banbury London line . |
| 22 | The Lions eased away after the anticipated all-action start from North Harbour and a 70-yard touch kick by Rob Andrew set up the first score in the ninth minute . |
| 23 | In 1988 , some time before the USSR began to crumble , Martyn Assirati set up the Russian Wine Company in London and travelled east to see what he could find . |
| 24 | Greg Costello set up the Shelbourne victory with a 25th minute goal and further scores from Brian Mooney and Antonio Izzi in the second half closed out Karpaty . |
| 25 | In 1904 Tansley and William Smith set up the Committee for the Survey and Study of British Vegetation , later known as the British Vegetation Committee . |
| 26 | They knew the town 's closed order already had links with South Africa where , in 1931 , a group from the Carmel Convent set up the first Carmelite convent in Johannesburg . |
| 27 | HENRY WHARTON set up the biggest fight in Yorkshire for years when he successfully defended his Commonwealth super-middleweight title by stopping Australian Rod Carr in eight rounds at Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday . |
| 28 | John Rose set up the famous porcelain factory at Coalport in 1785 , and it became noted for the fine quality of its decoration and lavish gilding . |
| 29 | When John Moores set up the first Littlewoods catalogue in 1932 , housewives ' shopping clubs were all the rage . |
| 30 | He helped Henry Ford set up the huge factory at Willow Run where B-24s were to be mass-produced . |