Example sentences of "set [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 2 | ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up . |
| 3 | I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up . |
| 4 | This bloke they are trying to set me up with . |
| 5 | You know , I had to say something clever — to win her , to set me apart , to make her see me as an individual — but wit is normally aggressive . |
| 6 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 7 | So the ship was to go briefly near ground-level to set me down by tractor-beam . |
| 8 | Frankenstein had made no effort to set me down . |
| 9 | We need penitence for these , and a determination to set them right , and above all the confident belief that God is always at work to bring blessing out of everything , however seemingly tragic and hopeless . |
| 10 | Just just a And you 'd to set them right We had to set them that they 've stayed like that . |
| 11 | At the top of the social scale the five largest houses in 1670 had five hearths apiece , which was hardly grandiose but was sufficient to set them apart from the rest . |
| 12 | It begins with a look at the various types of looms and how to set them up together with full details on how to operate each type , with hints and tips on weaving procedures . |
| 13 | This section describes in outline the directories required — details of how to set them up can be found in Section 2 . |
| 14 | And new businesses must let the council know four weeks in advance that they plan to set them up . |
| 15 | ( iv ) They should have opportunities to write personal letters to real , known recipients and should be shown how to set them out . |
| 16 | And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out . |
| 17 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 18 | It would need only a charge of the cavalry , or a shot fired over their heads , to set them off . |
| 19 | He had to set them down ! |
| 20 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 21 | Pray that they may be people who rely on God 's healing and allow him to set them back on the track of feeding the lambs . |
| 22 | Yet to set ourselves up in such a manner contradicts our cherished notion of being part of the community . ’ |
| 23 | Whether we ought to set ourselves up as molders of it is another question . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He won enough to set himself up in his own business , so if you see a ‘ Terimon Cafe ’ on the outskirts of London you 'll know how it got the name . ’ |
| 25 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 26 | It 's not that he wishes to set himself up as a leader . |
| 27 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 28 | A self-confessed con-artist and charlatan , he used his ‘ nimbleness of wit ’ to set himself up as a quack doctor and an exorcist . |
| 29 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 30 | To do this he has to set himself up as one of the scared people of the modern world , a textbook example of homo neuroticus . |