Example sentences of "he [verb] set [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 2 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed . |
| 4 | Maybe , it is argued , the Creator does not control the day-to-day succession of evolutionary events ; maybe he did not frame the tiger and the lamb , maybe he did not make a tree , but he did set up the original machinery of replication and replicator power , the original machinery of DNA and protein that made cumulative selection , and hence all of evolution , possible . |
| 5 | One such group was the disabled community for whom he had set up the Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability . |
| 6 | In the two day court case McMurdo argued that he had set up the deal whilst McClair was his client . |
| 7 | He had set out the costly paper , ink and pens with geometric precision on the table and was setting a stool for the scribe to sit on . |
| 8 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 9 | 's fluency in Spanish will be a big help as he works to set up the distribution and training systems which hold the key to success . |