Example sentences of "and set [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SEATO and CENTO pacts brought certain Asian states into pro-Western blocs and set them apart from a larger neutralist group . |
| 2 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
| 3 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 4 | Picking up the drinks , she crossed the room and set them down on the trestle , careful to keep her face turned away from the window . |
| 5 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 6 | She allowed Margaret Seymour-Strachey to bring in the tea things and set them out on the bedside table without speaking further . |
| 7 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 8 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 9 | I then produce a 5 by 4 or a 10 by 8 colour transparency and set it up on a light table . |
| 10 | He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach . |
| 11 | ‘ You took the Wheel to the site and set it up on the ramp ; was it left unattended at any time ? ’ |
| 12 | Then he lifted his other foot from the ground and set it firmly on the rough stone surface too . |
| 13 | Toby had reappeared with the tray , and set it down on a small marble table , before Jackson was aware of his presence . |
| 14 | Quietly , humbly , Cameron took off his headset and set it down on the floor . |
| 15 | I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window . |
| 16 | He emptied his cup and set it down on the table . |
| 17 | Taking a cooking bowl from the side he part filled it from the water jar and set it down on the ring . |
| 18 | Curval took out the slide — it seemed not as carefully as before — and set it down on the table beside him . |
| 19 | He lifted the tray from her lap and set it down by the bed . |
| 20 | He 'd kill Barak and set you up as the fall guy — I believe that 's the term you Americans use . |