Example sentences of "his [noun pl] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical occasion was when Thornton used his contacts to set up a meeting between the paper and the trade-union-sponsored Unity Bank to borrow £10,000 to keep things going for now , and to test the water for the millions of pounds that would be needed in the future . |
| 2 | His words set up a buzz in Sylvie 's mind . |
| 3 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 4 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 5 | He was deadly serious , and the expression in his eyes set off her early warning system . |
| 6 | So far , his efforts to set up a maintenance fund for Bemersyde have met with limited success . |
| 7 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 8 | He and his friends set off right away across the sea . |
| 9 | In 1951 , during the period of the Vietnamese uprising against the French colonial rule , he walked through his country 's rich tropical forests to China , where he and his colleagues set up a temporary university . |
| 10 | Darwin and his followers set out to explain the global distribution of animals and plants by postulating a complex sequence of migrations limited by geographical barriers . |