Example sentences of "[vb past] set [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then for a couple of years she helped set up a women 's bookshop and café run on high but unmanageable collective principles . |
| 2 | Information from the French , American and Russian experts who helped set up Iraq 's air defences will have helped in their defeat or circumvention — a jammer which knows how the enemy radar ‘ thinks ’ has a great advantage . |
| 3 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | After one trip , Mike spent six weeks on crutches because of a badly infected leg , and after another , Sally Wilson from the Natural History Unit , who helped set up the trip , spent almost six months in hospital with an unidentified infection . |
| 5 | I helped set up WIN after the war and was one of its representatives in London . |
| 6 | She taught , pressed for prison reform , and helped set up charitable houses for elderly , epileptic , and incurable women . |
| 7 | Once a colonel in the notoriously brutal National Guard of former dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle , Bermúdez helped set up , with United States assistance , the National Resistance ( RN ) contra forces opposed to the then ruling Sandinista government . |
| 8 | Formed in 1981 ULSS helped set up and launch the first Scottish Amicable unit-linked policy — the Capital Investment Bond . |
| 9 | A health visitor who helped set up a therapy centre for sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis has been named as Britain 's most caring person . |
| 10 | A woman accused of stealing thousands of pounds from a charity that she helped set up has made a further appearance in court . |
| 11 | Mr Jones helped set up the Welsh School in Cefn Mawr and was founder of the Cefn Mawr and District Welsh Society . |
| 12 | Mr Chettle , who comes originally from St Albans , helped set up the Aspex Gallery , a major artists studio base in Portsmouth . |
| 13 | As a teenager , he helped set up a cricket club . |
| 14 | Crime has decreased by 70 per cent since the cameras were installed and a local businessman , Chris Ormerod , managing director of Orrs of Airdrie , and vice-chairman of Airdrie Development Trust , which helped set up the surveillance system , said : ‘ Saturday afternoon trade has improved quite dramatically . |
| 15 | The first week I was there I helped set out all the toys and then helped the children with the toys . |
| 16 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 17 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 18 | Agreeing that the cakes should be protected , Mr Pinkney had set up a sort of crêpe paper barrier along the front of the display . |
| 19 | Rosalind Wingrove , education committee chairman , said it had set up a panel to consider how best to consult parents . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They had set up their mortar about twenty yards from our trench , and periodically fired off a couple of bombs in the direction of the German positions . |
| 22 | In August the Agitprop section of the Twelfth Party Conference had set up a commission to start a state subsidy for the politically reliable press . |
| 23 | After he leave school he had set up some sort of agricultural commune thing , he was always a man like that , saying we were people must make the most of we community skills and thing , but he get squeeze in that farming business and last I hear of him he had gone in the hills and become a guerrilla . |
| 24 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 25 | While Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century-Fox had set up their own production companies to produce British pictures , other US distributors relied on local suppliers . |
| 26 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 27 | In a further move , Chevron said it had set up a $5billion agreement with international banks to provide a fighting fund to fend off its rival . |
| 28 | First of all , DeFries , by this time , had set up his headquarters in New York although David was still headquartered in London . |
| 29 | The original shareholders were chiefly entrepreneurs who had set up their own firms during the previous half century , such as Cornelius Vanderbilt , John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie . |
| 30 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |