Example sentences of "they had set [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I was n't on the hill that evening but Mrs Goreng sent me to one of the big communal TVs they had set up on poles in the Praça . |
2 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
3 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
4 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
5 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |