Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 2 | An army camp that was set up to support the Normandy landings and has become the lynchpin of the British Army is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 3 | Two commissions were set up to regulate the Danube , on which no warships were to be allowed below the Iron Gates . |
| 4 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 5 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 6 | According to some commentators the Myanman military had set out to capture the Karens ' last two bases on the Thai border ( Manerplaw and Kawmoora ) by March 27 , the country 's Armed Forces Day . |