Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that , after an initial period of gaining experience with a leading European firm , he had set up on his own . |
| 2 | Now , in turn , that secondary attack was being eviscerated by French guns that had set up to its right , on a ridge that was the western twin of the Mort Homme , called simply Côte 304 . |
| 3 | Landsbergis was referring to a spate of attacks on improvised customs control points which the Lithuanian government had set up along its borders with the rest of the Soviet Union as a demonstration of Lithuania 's determination to act as an independent state . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope you remembered to bring a tin-opener , ’ said Sophia , in confusion , for the idea of taking food to the deprived Roman cats had set up in her head a muddled train of thought , which had something to do with Anglo- and Roman Catholicism , as if the latter had need of nourishment from the former . |
| 5 | One morning , for instance , after monitoring radio traffic all night in the NARCOG listening post he had set up in his back bedroom , Coleman reluctantly opened his apartment door to a caller who introduced himself as David Mills , a British photographer for Newsweek . |
| 6 | When Goethe , in a scene of Faust I written in Rome , evokes the travail of modern man and shows it being assuaged by the contemplation of the " silver figures of the ancient world " ( der Vorwelt silberne Gestalten ) these shapes are the ideal models of Greek man which Winckelmann had set up in his historico-aesthetic studies ; and when , in his " classical " drama Iphigenia in Tauris , Goethe 's fervent heroine is eventually victorious and the play resolves itself into a serene and harmonious close , it is the spirit of Winckelmann that triumphs . |
| 7 | On Thursday 23 May 1974 , little more than a week after Jinky had set out on his transatlantic crossing , the player was the focus of a controversial legal wrangle when a judge at Airdrie Sheriff Court postponed a trial involving the Celtic winger to allow him to prepare for Scotland 's forthcoming World Cup campaign in Germany . |
| 8 | I had set out on my walking tour of France in search of tranquillity . |
| 9 | It was worthy of the great adventurers and explorers who had set out from its quays , and at that magic time of arrival after a long sea voyage , with the mist-filtered rays of the sun touching the cathedral domes and castle towers , the old city of Ulysses fulfilled and exceeded all her expectations . |
| 10 | Before Father Kendrick had set off for his new city parish — racial mix , boys ' club , mothers ' union , young people 's fellowship ; the proper challenge for a mildly high-church , ambitious young priest with one eye on a mitre — he had had a brief word about Beryl McBride . |
| 11 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 12 | Through it the legions of Claudius and Nero had set off on their march along Watling Street nearly two thousand years ago . |