Example sentences of "the [noun pl] set [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 In November 1940 the Vichy government abolished the ineffective Commission de Châlons , intending to replace it with an organisation called Le Bureau de Repartition du Vinicole de Champagne , but in April the following year the Germans set up the CIVC .
2 For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings .
3 The companies set up the Volta Aluminium Company ( VALCO ) in 1959 .
4 The dogs were set off by it and the dogs set off the sheep and the goats and the cows .
5 The covenants set out the formal obligations of both landlord and tenant .
6 The Sheriff , Mr. Truelock , was called and with two of the men set about the work of destruction .
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