Example sentences of "and set [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next year Xionics plans to quadruple production at its factory in Letchworth and to set up deals to sell the products in Europe and the Middle East . |
| 2 | What it did , however , was to recommend a series of procedures , and to set out suggested working timetables , designed to enable agencies and production companies to control their costs more effectively . |
| 3 | All the same , her dreamy enjoyment faded and as Felipe was almost smothered by Candace and Mitch was utterly involved with Ana , who refused to be more than primly polite to the new arrivals , Maggie found herself encumbered with Peter Rainford , who sat as close as he could get and set out to entertain her . |
| 4 | Mrs Nutt submitted that it would be difficult , if not impossible , for the appellant to try and set about to prove that the co-defendant had not committed an act of gross indecency with him , that he was in effect deprived of any opportunity of cross-examining or otherwise challenging the co-defendant and that to admit the evidence would be simply to render the proceedings against the appellant wholly unfair . |
| 5 | We have three more games to go before I can relax and set about re-negotiating my pitiful contracts at the club and the DSS . |
| 6 | This is set in Ulster and sets out to depict ordinary people getting on with their lives . |
| 7 | She plays Bruna , a street-wise veteran of the East Side , who is attacked and sets out to get revenge . |
| 8 | A peasant catches two partridges , takes them home to his wife to cook and sets off to invite the village priest to join them . |
| 9 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 10 | The creation of Training and Enterprise Councils , led by local employers and set up to plan training and vocational education strategically , are having a difficult birth at present . |
| 11 | These new communities brought with them their tradition of culture and art and set up trading relations with Byzantium . |
| 12 | Even after the iconoclasm of the Reformation , when much of the abbey church survived only because of its adaptation as parish church , James VI fell under its spell , granted it to his queen , Anne of Denmark , and set about refashioning it into a sumptuous palace . |
| 13 | And set about transferring them to his mouth , |
| 14 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
| 15 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer — which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
| 16 | She had an almost Germanic regard for order , and set about repairing the house , the stables , the outbuildings and conservatory with the willing and cheerful help of a small , dedicated band of local people , with whom she could relax and be herself , without putting up defences as she 'd had to do with the false Pyglings . |
| 17 | It adopted a similar monitorial system , developed by Andrew Bell , and set about providing " National " schools to rival the " British " schools of the BFSS . |
| 18 | Miss Fogerty hung up her tweed coat and her brown felt hat behind the classroom door , and set about unlocking the cupboards . |
| 19 | He left her and set about smoothing the sheets of her bed with touchingly serious clumsiness . |
| 20 | Neither Persinger nor Brady is a ufologist , but certain UFO researchers have come to recognise the importance of their work and set about verifying it . |
| 21 | W.L. Gore , of Gore-Tex fame , clearly thought this was n't enough and set about developing a lightweight , breathable windproof lining designed primarily for fleece and wool . |
| 22 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly she got narky with this bumptious little turd giving her lectures in infant-theology and set about proving things with a prism . |
| 24 | The new Labour Government who will be elected five weeks tomorrow will immediately sign the social charter and set about getting the social chapter firmly into the treaty itself . |
| 25 | Charles took one look at the proffered platitudes , which he knew to be absurd , and set about writing an alternative . |
| 26 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |
| 27 | He was keen for more business to be taken at full Cabinet level and set about dismantling parts of the Attlee machine . |
| 28 | The move is much more towards learning by and from personal experience , not just in nursing , but from everyday life , from contact with others and from previous employment , anything which adds an extra dimension to the way we perceive problems and set about dealing with them . |
| 29 | Reconstituted his old Leopard Group and set about pacifying Maniema Province . |
| 30 | He believed that there should be some form of demonstration against such displays and set about organising the ‘ march for righteousness ’ . |