Example sentences of "[vb past] set [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 2 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 4 | Mr Chettle , who comes originally from St Albans , helped set up the Aspex Gallery , a major artists studio base in Portsmouth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wish we had set up the amp . ’ |
| 9 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 10 | Just before his departure , Ellis had set up the position for prop Harmon 's try . |
| 11 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 12 | Dr Russell had set up the monitor when Belinda returned . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The new statute had set out the management arrangements governing the institutions which the county authority had taken over . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had set down the candle . |
| 19 | 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 . |