Example sentences of "he set [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He set up the first try with a fine break after 11 minutes , for Lloyd to round off the move with an impudent dummy . |
| 2 | When he returned from exile , he was fired with the wish to help his country catch up with the advanced industrial countries of the west , so he set up the Czech Industrial Museum in his family brewery . |
| 3 | He set up the TV Times coverage , and we all pretended to be having a wonderful time for the benefit of the camera . |
| 4 | And he set up the third , after 44 minutes , with a 20-yard effort that Strakosha could only shove out . |
| 5 | He set up the Koetser Foundation in Zurich in order to acquire Old Masters and donated seventy works to it . |
| 6 | ‘ My father was n't exactly short of money when he set up the trust . ’ |
| 7 | In 1880 he set up the Art Furnishers ' Alliance at Bond Street to sell ‘ artistic house furnishing material ’ . |
| 8 | By getting out of the bargain books field now , he believed he might well be ‘ ahead of the game ’ , just as he had been when he set up the company . |
| 9 | He took his Tutors examinations in both disciplines and he set up the Euro School of Funeral Studies which flourished and gained a name for excellence . |
| 10 | Erm so he set up the corner as a darkroom and started doing playing about with his with his own black and white printing . |
| 11 | He should know : he set up the police unit which , fictionalised , rushes around the small screen under the name ’ Miami Vice ’ . |
| 12 | The process of information-gathering which ensued was certainly no more radical than that sanctioned by Nicholas I when he set up the Committee of 6 December 1826 . |
| 13 | He set up the prize to give aspiring writers a chance to step on the first rung of the literary ladder . |
| 14 | no , not yet , I 've seen the beginning where he set up the and that |
| 15 | He set down the plate and taking a piece of newspaper out of his pocket wrapped the fat up and put it in his pocket . |
| 16 | ‘ So I was informed , ’ Rohan Saint Yves said grimly , as he set down the tray . |
| 17 | Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church . |
| 18 | Mr Kantor , before the Council of the Americas , gave a speech committing the administration to implementing a North American Free Trade Agreement by January 1st 1994 ; on the same day , he set out the administration 's determination to conclude the Uruguay round of the GATT by December . |
| 19 | Back at Cliff Top over tea in his caravan , he set out the column headings for me thus : |
| 20 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
| 21 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 22 | Ramsay did not exactly cheer , but Will noticed a certain lightening in his brother 's step thereafter , as he set about the business of summoning men . |
| 23 | Upon his accession he set about the introduction of the Norman feudal system by dividing his realm up into feus or fiefs , and gave monopolistic trade charters to many towns on whose loyalty he henceforth hoped to rely . |
| 24 | On the contrary , he set about the formation of the National government with an enthusiasm which showed that the adventure was highly agreeable to him . |
| 25 | Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism . |
| 26 | Following demobilisation , he set about the rehabilitation of the Trinidad Workingmen 's Association , whilst at the same time getting himself elected as mayor of Port of Spain . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern . |
| 28 | Then he set off the expense of having a debtor arrested in this way , which failed to produce payment of the debt against the sums he recovered . |
| 29 | Oh I thought you said he had a fag and he set off the alarm . |