Example sentences of "he set a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then there was a calm hand on his shoulder , and Madra was leaning past him to set a tray on the table , her hair swinging over his arm . |
| 2 | However , since Stamp Duty has already been removed from share dealing , why has he set a moratorium on house purchase ? |
| 3 | Vogel 's book entitled Japan As Number One ( 1979 ) is the epitome of this trend , as he sets a scenario in which he not only predicts that the Japanese economy will be the biggest in the world before the end of the century , but also that Japanese society should henceforth be the model for post-industrial societies . |
| 4 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 5 | But he set a date , put an Assistant Manager in charge and after a small conflab set the number at 50 . |
| 6 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 7 | He set a course for Omsk and cut in the automatic pilot , settling back to cope with the chain of niggling worries that his blunder had triggered off . |
| 8 | For instance , we can easily miss the point made by our Lord when he set a child in the midst of the crowd and declared to the surrounding throng that if they wished to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they would have to become as a little child ( Matt. |
| 9 | In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose . |
| 10 | BUSINESSMAN David Clark made a bunch of builders buzz off yesterday — after he set a swarm of angry bees on them . |
| 11 | Detectives who at first treated the death of Mr Peter Jowett as murder said they now believed he was killed as he set a snare . |
| 12 | In 1990 he set a world record , buying Frederick Lord Leighton 's Dante in Exile at £1.1 million at Sotheby 's . |
| 13 | He set a hand to his belt , and drew the hilt of his dagger forward with a gesture there was no mistaking . |