Example sentences of "[verb] set before " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a crowded restaurant she gives a little scream at the plate which some overworked waitress has set before her and says , ‘ Oh , that 's far , far too much ! |
| 2 | Sometimes one set of sculptors would be finishing an already countermanded set before the news of yet more changes reached them . |
| 3 | Celebrating the start of our once in a lifetime holiday in style by sipping rum punches on the open deck we watched the sun beginning to set before being escorted to our cabin . |
| 4 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 5 | It was nearly as tall an order as Eva 's father had set before her at the beginning of her life . |