Example sentences of "set [pron] on " in BNC.
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1 | As Ted 's star began to wane , John became the Palace 's leading scorer , to set them on the way to higher things and immediately topped our scoring chart again in our first season in Division Two , 1921–22 . |
2 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
3 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
4 | Now there are a few branches there , there 's one that 's lying kind of horizontal , it 'll be an idea to set someone on top of that . |
5 | THE daughter of the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist Owen Chamberlain , who had threatened to set herself on fire and detonate explosives in front of the UN headquarters in New York , surrendered to police yesterday after a tense confrontation . |
6 | They would provide him with an army to set him on the throne in return for his establishment of a presbyterian form of church government throughout the realm . |
7 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
8 | It was good enough however to set her on the way to winning vital experience — and other roles soon followed . |
9 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
10 | He seemed kind , too , putting out a hand to set her on her feet again . |
11 | These were the veins in your lids , she knew that , though now , in the darkness of her pain , she remembered that Adesangé , lord of the volcano , the power that leapt in the crater and had leapt to set her on fire , moved along fissures in the earth that forked like those veins in her eyes . |
12 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
13 | It is prudent , however , to set it on a level plinth , and in the case of a fountain assembly it is vital that the jet unit be just above the maximum water level . |
14 | If this is the case , then it should be up to defending counsel to set it on its feet and persuade the judge to place the matter before the jury . |
15 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
16 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
17 | Fortunately , in this series of articles we will use more conventional maps to set us on the treasure trail , because it is my belief that correctly interpreted , the Ordnance Survey maps of the British Isles already contain most of the information necessary to track down some of the treasures that time has so cunningly concealed ! |
18 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
19 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
20 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
21 | ‘ They sometimes set them on fire , and you can see hillsides of charred stumps in some places . ’ |
22 | With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory . |
23 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
24 | Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history . |
25 | As Maggie took the things from the tray and set them on the table she said , ‘ I know what you 're thinking : we 're slightly barmy . ’ |
26 | When the cream has gone fill them with daffodils , set them on a table centre of tawny orange silk with a bordering of asparagus fern . |
27 | " Put two quarts of gooseberries into about a quart of water , and set them on the fire . |
28 | This might give vital stimulation to others and set them on new lines of discovery . |
29 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
30 | Nationalist slogans , ‘ pulled out of the murkiest depths of history ’ , were chanted , and the crowd , armed with metal posts , sticks and stones , then proceeded to beat up local citizens , overturn cars and set them on fire , and smash the windows of shops and other public buildings . |