Example sentences of "[conj] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most players are baffled by the animosity that set in between Morgan and Docherty , although one former . |
| 2 | Just have a try and h try and set up a c a a a meeting with this Sally and your engineering winger |
| 3 | Ossie and Tito steal him back and set off for the wild reaches of western Ireland with Byrne , Kelly and their friend Kathleen ( Barkin ) in hot pursuit . |
| 4 | Salmon explains that " Colletts and Gallaher agreed that to follow competition and cut price would show a short-term benefit in sales , but set up a long-term " imagery " problem . |
| 5 | Further evidence of these weaknesses is the way governments , faced with difficult problems , do not turn to the departments ( or to the Commons ) but set up commissions and inquiries manned by distinguished outsiders to investigate and pronounce . |
| 6 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 7 | Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards . |
| 8 | If you are using brick slips to cover a large arch in the same room , the soffit can be nailed below the arch , but set back about 25mm higher , or made flush with the arch , so that brick slips can be stuck around the face , or both face and soffit , to match the main arch . |
| 9 | One chilling line read , ‘ The Rushdie affair can not help but set back hopes for an early release for the western hostages in Lebanon . ’ |
| 10 | Yet I might ask to have the salt passed , or discourse of the evil weather , and so my brother , to my great chagrin , noticed nothing , but set out blithely to go hunting with his new friend , leaving me at home to sit by the hearth , and to feel silent anguish at what might ensue . |
| 11 | Already in his fifties , Borrow was not apparently disconcerted to find the coach meeting the train at Plymouth was full but set out accordingly on foot to St. Cleer , where he was offered hospitality by the Taylor family at Penquite Farm . |
| 12 | In particular actual benefit rates are not included in such legislation but set out in regulations which are regularly updated and amended |
| 13 | Just as Jesus did not draw attention to himself but set out to glorify his Father by passing on the Father s message to men ( 8:28 , 1 2:28,1 7:4 ) , so the Paraclete will not speak on his own authority … but will take what is mine and declare it to you' ( 16 : 14 ) . |