Example sentences of "[noun prp] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 32 | Pogo gave me a lovely Mah Jong set for Christmas and ‘ I 'm just wild about ’ the game . |
| 33 | Sharon set for a Basic £16m |
| 34 | Carey set to work clearing the jungle and erecting a little bamboo hut with fences to keep out tigers ! |
| 35 | Beauty therapist Suzanne set to work to reduce the Santa spread by preparing Frigi-Thalgo . |
| 36 | John Dickson Carr , stalwart of the Golden Age of the detective story , set some dozen of his books in past times , with particularly to be recommended Devil in Velvet , set in the Regency period , and Bride of Newgate set in the seventeenth century . |
| 37 | With this in mind he approached the Reservoir Quality Prediction team in March and geologist Andrew Hogg and petrophysicist Susan Young set to work . |
| 38 | So is Kate Moss set to be a new supermodel ? |
| 39 | At the last conference , Neil Kinnock set in motion a plan to institute a National Policy Forum , which would meet four times a year , and produce a two-year rolling review of policy to be ( if all went well ) rubber-stamped by the annual conference . |
| 40 | Tommy set for Lewis crunch |
| 41 | Winstanley set to work with a fantastic design , eighty feet high , the lower part to be of stonework covered with metal , the upper part of wood . |
| 42 | Boscastle set for G.C.R. return |
| 43 | Mungo set to , enjoying the work . |
| 44 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 45 | US and Europe set for trade war |
| 46 | International : Britain set for clash on £600m Euro-TV |
| 47 | The primary task that de Gaulle set for himself in 1944 and to which he devoted the rest of his political life was the reconstitution of the French state into a state that could unite the nation , mobilize its energies , provide vigorous leadership , and stabilize France 's erratic course through the twentieth century . |
| 48 | Clinton set for victory amid doubts |
| 49 | The five vessels that would soon make history — the Vittoria ( now generally known as the Victoria ) , the Trinidada ( the Trinidad ) , the San Antonio , the Concepción and the Santiago — were small and , until Magellan set to work on them , hopelessly unseaworthy . |
| 50 | Sankey set for big-time finale |
| 51 | In the four books which Ransome set in East Anglia , the geographical details are so specific that the books can be used as accurate guides to the appropriate parts of Norfolk , Suffolk and Essex . |
| 52 | Armed with these two principles Einstein , Podolsky and Rosen set to work to demolish quantum mechanics . |
| 53 | Ted Post 's Go Tell the Spartans ( 1978 ) was based on Daniel Ford 's novel Incident at Muc Wa set in 1964 . |
| 54 | It had been glorious just to sit there at the huge dining table , with the sounds of the sea wafting up through the open window , feeling her exhaustion slip away from her , while the energetic Mrs Birkin set before the three of them course after delicious course . |
| 55 | I once lost a whole Bronica set in the Maldives while in only two feet of sea — but that is another story . |
| 56 | Meanwhile , Jerome was pleasuring her mouth , while Clement set to work between her hands . |
| 57 | Cetinale set in the countryside |
| 58 | The moral problems which Violet Needham set for her heroes and heroines , the points of honour appropriate to their royal or aristocratic heritage , belonged to an earlier society than that of her eventual readers , but the exhilaration of adventure was there to help them . |
| 59 | The first two incorporate the so-called CPU2 dual-processor 40MHz Sparc set from Cypress Semiconductor , the 752 employs two of them , whilst the 240 is a Sun Sparcserver 2-type uni-processor . |
| 60 | London set for Highland fling |