Example sentences of "had set [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disquiet and consternation he had set up among the brothers would go on echoing and re-echoing for some time , while he who had caused it had recoiled into numbness and exhaustion . |
| 2 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 5 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The first proof that the rot had set in at the Midland was the full disclosure of its profits and reserves in 1969 . |
| 8 | Part of this represented a disquieting pattern which had set in since the 1960s ( see Table 2.3 ) . |
| 9 | Rain had set in after the heatwave and there was an infestation of jelly fishes in the Moray Firth . |
| 10 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 11 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 12 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 13 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 14 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 15 | The men on board the ‘ Firefly , ’ a 25-foot catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 16 | The men aboard Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 17 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 18 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |