Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] set [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It embodies the decision impugned and apart from the definitions I must set it out in full . |
| 2 | If I could set something up in Northumberland it would be a good thing . |
| 3 | I will set them out in the order in which I propose to deal with them . |
| 4 | I will set you down at the West Gate . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll set me up in my own flat — ’ |
| 6 | Or she could set it down on a shelf alongside an empty flower jug . |
| 7 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 8 | And if I may we 'll set something up for them and we 'll try and get the shirt on the telly and whatever and try and get people to remember . |
| 9 | That was how we 'd set it up from the beginning . |
| 10 | We shall set him up in advertising , |
| 11 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 12 | If the Purchaser wishes specific matters to be warranted it should set them out in detail . |
| 13 | But if Lewis wants to wear the WBC crown with pride , he must set himself aside from Riddick Bowe 's yellow-bellied tactics . |
| 14 | Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow . |
| 15 | It 'll set you right in no time . ’ |
| 16 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 17 | It will set you back between £40 to £80 for treatment which will last up to an hour . |
| 18 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |