Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to set [art] " in BNC.

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1 This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead .
2 I want to set the record straight .
3 I want to set the record straight .
4 ‘ Did I remember to set the internal stabilizers ?
5 I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil .
6 I try to set an example , and I am more than willing to accept any degree of personal criticism and , indeed , get a lot of it — some of it rather hurtful .
7 With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range .
8 I longed to set the record straight , but Peter was desperate not to look like a failure in front of you .
9 I wish to set the record straight on personal assistance schemes , raised by Malcolm Stone ( Letters , 8 April ) .
10 I WISH to set the record straight on the issue of the works and health committee 's decision to introduce a ‘ Caring Contractor ’ scheme for Darlington .
11 Right , yeah i I 've got a , I need to set a date with Catherine , an appraisal and then we 'll be , are you not looking forward to it ?
12 I have to set the record straight .
13 Adalbert of Bremen claims to be spiritual overlord of the Orkneys and Norway : do you want to set a precedent there ? ’
14 do you want to set a date for another meeting just now or do you want to get in touch later George ?
15 When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally .
16 And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could .
17 You allow people to say what they like , write it down , you have to set a time limit because people get tired , it is a very sort of , it takes a lot of energy to do this , and concentrate on it .
18 So you have to set the boundaries for friends , in just the same way that you do for parents .
19 If you have to set the commands manually in either the config.sys or the autoexec.bat files , you will have to use either the Edlin , or Edit commands .
20 In order to display a date in 1-2-3 you need to set a date format .
21 I think you need to set a time actually .
22 Erm you need to set the scene .
23 However , if you are going to do this , then you need to set the same ACLs on all the relevant files .
24 We wanted to set the harddisk back inside the casing to allow for a cover plate , so the assembly had to be inserted from the inside .
25 ’ Kilmarnock gave us a doing the last time we played them so we wanted to set the record straight .
26 Against this we have to set the disadvantage that re-investigation might come to be considered as a disciplinary review .
27 Against this rather scanty evidence we have to set the 5 patients probably infected from an HIV-infected dentist .
28 We need to set a timescale on it .
29 We need to set an example as well , at this present time M S F are already in a position where they 're training their activists in other languages .
30 They seem to set the tone . ’
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