Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 4 | A school of masseurs had set up at number 17 and a rival dance director called Sherman Fisher was working from number 18 . |
| 5 | Early in April 1848 the committee which Nicholas had set up under Menshikov reported negatively on the two most popular journals of the day , The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland , and recommended the creation of a new body to supervise the activity of the regime 's censors . |
| 6 | The success of the factory that Perkin had set up near Harrow encouraged thoughts of a similar enterprise near the Elephant & Castle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By 3 February 1722 , when he registered his first maker 's marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , he had set up in Threadneedle Street , a move made possible by his marriage on 9 January 1722 to Alder , wealthy daughter of Samuel Phelpes , gentleman merchant , and Mary Aldworth , descendant of merchant princes linked with the East India Company and the Society of Merchant Adventurers of Bristol . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Roirbak 's laboratory wing , Ari was watching a movie too , though of a slightly different nature to any Roirbak had set out for Nathan 's entertainment . |
| 13 | The ordeal ended when they were picked up from Great Barrier Island , 123 days after they had set out from New Zealand . |
| 14 | I got wet again , as the rain had set in in stair-rods . |
| 15 | He and Charlotte had grown tired of the undertaking business and had set off to London to start a new life — with all the money from Mr Sowerberry 's shop in their pockets . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | William had set off on Saturday to walk between Ben Dearg and Ben Alligin Hills . |
| 18 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 19 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 20 | Mrs Chandler , 47 , had set off from Shap in Cumbria on August 25 . |