Example sentences of "[indef pn] set [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Everyone is short of cash , and nobody set on the goal of having a station could argue with the idea of combining the efforts .
2 So you nip down to the shop , hand over six quid or so with bad grace , choose — somehow — one set from the enormous and multicoloured collection on offer , zoom home and spend a happy ten minutes snipping , cranking and generally trying to avoid poking your eye out .
3 Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom .
4 So the dual role of any human being as a producer and consumer is torn apart , with one set against the other .
5 We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use .
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