Example sentences of "set her [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was good enough however to set her on the way to winning vital experience — and other roles soon followed .
2 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 .
3 He seemed kind , too , putting out a hand to set her on her feet again .
4 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 .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 ‘ I did talk to her to set her at her ease , ’ he justified mildly .
7 As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality .
8 He had n't meant any harm but his few words had set her against him .
9 Her attitude toward individual patrons sets her beyond most of her contemporaries in defending the integrity of her work .
10 Not a full-time neglect , but one which sets her as a decoration on the perimeter of his life as a busy executive setting up a new venture .
11 Vass 's arms embraced her , lightly yet firmly , pinning her slender body against his , and his lips all at once were pressing down on her lips , drawing the life from her , setting her on fire .
12 He take a rather gloating pleasure in setting her beside Kee , and one imagines his expression as he writes — the isolate , turning over his secrets to make capital of them .
13 As she entered the most dynamic period of her career , Kylie took stock of the success — and tried to analyse the curious chemistry of the TV series that set her on the road to it .
14 ‘ It was me that set her on fire ! ’
15 Quick as a flash , Baba Yaga 's daughter turned her visitor into a needle , stuck her into the birch-broom , and set her on one side .
16 He swung her round and set her on her feet , looking at her as might a desert traveller who had just found water .
17 She struggled furiously , but it was little use , and at the top of the steps he set her on her feet .
18 He set her on her feet , and said in a voice which she hardly recognised , ‘ You will go immediately to the kitchen , McAllister , to await further instructions , but only after you have apologised to Mrs Darrell , at once ! ’
19 As he set her on the floor again , Kirsty turned to Shiona .
20 He set her on her feet without a word and steadied her while she manoeuvred the crutch into position .
21 Leonora digested this peace of news with mixed feelings as he set her on her feet .
22 He set her on her feet , then tidied the bed .
23 He set her on her feet suddenly , his eyes like blue flames in his taut face .
24 So she let in Vasilissa , set her by the fire , and gave her food .
25 Then slowly he set her from him .
26 When abruptly he lifted his head and set her from him , dazed and disorientated , she staggered a little before regaining her balance .
27 Giggling — even her mother ! — they undressed her to her shift and set her in the bed , uncomfortably decorated with fruit and sheaves of barley , to await her husband .
28 But how naughty of you to pluck her and set her in a vase that only you see !
29 Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller .
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