Example sentences of "[was/were] setting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps while the Trees were setting about Balor . |
| 2 | Almost as if , having proclaimed himself paralytic in court , he was setting about proving it over and over again . |
| 3 | Behind the net curtain , the sun was setting on cushions of soft mauve , pearl and beige . |
| 4 | The sun was setting on the tops of the distant mountains . |
| 5 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 6 | The hippies used to say : ‘ Wow man , you know we love Lyndon Johnson ’ , and people like Roland Muldoon — who was setting up the Cast street theatre group — were in a much more combative mood . |
| 7 | It was nearly seven in the evening and the sun was setting behind their backs before the two weary , footsore brothers were able to limp back to their barracks in Number Three Village with their joint quota fulfilled . |
| 8 | The sun was setting behind the black rocks , and the sea was a blaze of luminous colour . |
| 9 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 10 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 11 | The sun was setting in a red blaze as we drove into the centre of Mexico City , the long geometrically laid-out streets already darkening into canyons filled with the lights of cars . |
| 12 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |