Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] set [pers pn] [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 | I will set them out in the order in which I propose to deal with them . |
| 3 | I will set you down at the West Gate . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll set me up in my own flat — ’ |
| 5 | Or she could set it down on a shelf alongside an empty flower jug . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That was how we 'd set it up from the beginning . |
| 8 | We shall set him up in advertising , |
| 9 | If the Purchaser wishes specific matters to be warranted it should set them out in detail . |
| 10 | Yes , have a little nap ; it 'll set you up for a day 's work tomorrow . |
| 11 | It 'll set you right in no time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It will set you back between £40 to £80 for treatment which will last up to an hour . |
| 14 | 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 . |