Example sentences of "[noun prp] to set the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rush scored his 200th league goal in England to set the seal on Liverpool 's win and then admitted he prefers the presence of a strike partner to the lone attacker role employed against Spartak . |
| 2 | America might be a superpower , as the Iranians kept saying , but Iran — as Hakim put it — was a ‘ super religious power ’ , one that might easily find the pretext of some religious occasion to persuade Hizbollah to set the captives free . |
| 3 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 4 | In February 1972 , Nixon himself went to China to set the seal on the new relationship . |
| 5 | Later she helped Mr Priddy to set the dining table upstairs . |
| 6 | As fans we would plead with Morrissey to set the record straight . |
| 7 | Six weeks after Lancaster 's execution , on 2 May 1322 , parliament assembled at York to set the seal on the royalist victory . |
| 8 | I 'll get Dave to set the alarm and then we can have breakfast before we sort of rush out . |