Example sentences of "have set [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roche was beaten a length on Desert Team , who had set sail for home through the testing ground but was collared by the John Oxxtrained Sinissipi . |
| 2 | Seven months before , while Castile was — in his intemperate view — still dithering , he had set sail from Santa Maria for the coastal town of Acla , at what Indians told him was the narrowest and least topographically inconvenient part of the Panamanian isthmus . |
| 3 | The target date for the operation was fixed at 15 May 1779 , at latest , when 30 French ships of the line , plus frigates and corvettes , would join up , off Corunna , from which the Spanish Armada had set sail in 1588 , with the 20 battleships promised by Spain . |
| 4 | Newton seems at that time to have accepted a variant of the ethereal vortices that Descartes had set rotating around the Sun to carry the Earth and the planets in orbital motion . |
| 5 | Italian and French frigates have set sail for Mogadishu . |
| 6 | Your people will be switched off the moment the objective that you have set appears to be unobtainable . |