Example sentences of "[pers pn] set a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I next ran at Oslo where I set a personal best for 200 metres , so that was encouraging . |
| 2 | ‘ While you were following your own pursuits this morning , I set a few more wheels in motion . |
| 3 | ‘ Señorita , I was expecting you — see , I set a place . |
| 4 | Before she went to Navron she told Harry she felt like the well fed birds that could only fly about in their cage , but ‘ one day I set a linnet free which flew straight out of my hand towards the sun . ’ |
| 5 | But if you set a personal best indoors , on the heavy training that you have been undertaking , it is a tremendous incentive . |
| 6 | You expect that if you set a 10:10 standard on a [ large well-known company ] for a , say a pickle liquor , or something , if you did that they would comply because they 're big enough and they 've got the expertise , and so on . |
| 7 | So long as you set a limit to the essay you will have confidence and control . |
| 8 | As soon as you set a limit to your endurance , you are lost . |
| 9 | The DIP switches are concerned mainly with monitor type — you set a block of three of the six switches to indicate the maximum resolution your monitor is capable of — and whether or not you will want to use the 32k colour modes ( and you will , believe me ! ) |
| 10 | CATHERINE You set a valuation on things too , do you ? |
| 11 | Er have you set a sum |
| 12 | Right , so , when you set a standard , is that to one person or for everybody ? |
| 13 | Unless you set a time or something . |
| 14 | And I mean , if you set a list to do something for a day Yeah . |
| 15 | You set a blurb or something in proper Caledonia and then in Neue-Caledonia and it hits you that the Neue-Caledonia has gone all sort of thin and sharp and it 's the perfection of that shape there and the old one sort of boings about a bit and looks happy on the page . |
| 16 | During the 1987 election we set a carefully timed an organised arrival at a particular airport . |
| 17 | Michael Heseltine ( 1987 , p. 138 ) has since claimed that ‘ we set a new objective : to make the inner cities places where people would want to live and work and where the private investor would be willing to put his money ’ . |
| 18 | We set a course for Out Skerries in good visibility and fairly calm seas . |
| 19 | But we did n't know how it was going to go , so mentally we set a time limit on it . |
| 20 | So we set a date for it , Saturday June 29th at six in the morning . |
| 21 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 22 | If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges . |
| 23 | We set a frequency rate target of 0.7 per 100,000 manhours for 1992 — in fact we achieved a rate of 0.5 which was excellent and all concerned must be congratulated for their vigilance . |
| 24 | Make sure managers and supervisors are familiar with the policy and procedures , and make sure too that they set a good example to the staff they supervise . |
| 25 | They set a time , however , within which the coheir should set to construction , and after which they wished Procula alone to construct , imputing costs to her coheir for his share . |
| 26 | They set a marvellous example indeed . |
| 27 | Bell Labs notes that fault tolerance is common in hardware and in operating systems , but generally too costly for many software systems , and says that as far as it knows , these are the first general-purpose software modules , and they set a trend toward low-cost fault-tolerance in user-level software . |
| 28 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 29 | Wrapped in white toga-like shammas worn over long white shirts and jodhpurs , they set a fashion which over the years was copied by an increasing number of their subjects . |
| 30 | The milder range in fact serves not to challenge but to define the limits of propriety ; they set a horizon beyond which " improper " linguistic use will not go , and the audience can laugh with relief at the reassurance that they will not be shocked , as well as at the impudence of these terms . |