Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 2 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 3 | Out of nine poems he set to music , Cale eventually chose four , ‘ that seemed to hang together , especially ‘ Lie Still , Sleep Becalmed ’ . |
| 4 | Muttering beneath her breath she set to the preparation of the tall boy 's breakfast . |
| 5 | To test this claim we set on John . |
| 6 | Catherine took the chair he set for her , and extracted her notebook from her bag . |
| 7 | They fear the power of the example he set by completing a world record 87 marathons , in 13 different nations in the year to March 15 . |
| 8 | But er country girls they set to it and work , they 're good workers . |
| 9 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 10 | He acknowledged the plate she set within his reach with an incomprehensible grunt , which might or might not have been one of thanks . |
| 11 | Fen made no comment about the meal she set before him , but , she noticed , he ate with relish and from time to time she felt him observing her contemplatively . |
| 12 | Hoover was certainly , Summers shows , spectacularly indifferent to those straight arrow standards he set for his agents . |