Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her will makes no mention of Minton , but it is likely that her death released the trust which her late husband had set up on behalf of the Minton children and of which John now remained the sole heir . |
| 2 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 3 | He had set up in practice on his own about nine years before the competition , and his most important executed work up until then had been the Tudor style Royal Infirmary at Dundee ( 1852–5 ) , which he had won in competition . |
| 4 | The four , in their thirties and forties , had set out on board the 43ft Rose Noelle on 1 June for a three-week voyage to Tonga , but were reported overdue on 24 June . |
| 5 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 6 | In July 1338 Edward had set out on campaign in Flanders , leaving the realm in the charge of a keeper , the eight-year-old duke of Cornwall , and a council , on which Richard Bintworth , bishop of London , and Robert Wodehouse , archdeacon of Richmond , sat as chancellor and treasurer respectively . |
| 7 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 8 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |