Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt .
2 He had even established a system for sending money home to their families once they had set up house in this country .
3 With Syrian approval , the captain of the town 's ‘ defence committee ’ had set up office in the telephone exchange .
4 His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ .
5 The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot .
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