Example sentences of "[coord] set [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 2 | There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . " |
| 3 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | " Put two quarts of gooseberries into about a quart of water , and set them on the fire . |
| 6 | This might give vital stimulation to others and set them on new lines of discovery . |
| 7 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the meetings called in different villages , some proposed a raid on the Rebecca , as the new sloop was called ; others planned to murder the guards in the food stores behind the stockade at Belmont and set them on fire ; but when Dulé and his companions sailed in from Oualie to discuss the best strategy , they suggested slow , persistent attrition : waylaying the occasional soldier or watch outside the compound , or in the sturdy dwellings of the English leaders , until the islanders had accumulated at least twenty guns , as well as the necessary tackle to go with them , the gunpowder kegs and pouches for shot , the ramrods to load the barrels . |
| 10 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 11 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 12 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 13 | We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society . |
| 14 | When the people in the world awaken to the rights that are theirs , governments will no longer dare to defy them and set them at nought . ’ |
| 15 | Axelrod translated all 15 strategies into one common programming language , and set them against one another in one big computer . |
| 16 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 17 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |
| 18 | Fru Blicher had organised eighty chairs from a nearby school and set them in a semi-circle round the platform . |
| 19 | In 1957 , by a coincidence , we both sorted letters and set them in order . |
| 20 | He baited his baskets and set them in the water , he was so cunning ! |
| 21 | Apparently , within Gaul the writing of history had no appeal from the early fifth century until Gregory determined to write an account which would put his own times on record and set them in perspective . |
| 22 | Just choose the correct printer , and set it as the default printer from the menu option and you , your Star printer , and Windows will all be best of friends . |
| 23 | She put his tea down on the table in the lounge , sought out the Scotch and set it beside the cup . |
| 24 | She watched him roll back his sleeves , then fill a bowl with water and set it beside the knives . |
| 25 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 26 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 27 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 28 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 29 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 30 | Until computers can take over , the only way to carry out experiments is to build a full-sized test rig , and set it on fire . |