Example sentences of "and set it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She put his tea down on the table in the lounge , sought out the Scotch and set it beside the cup . |
3 | She watched him roll back his sleeves , then fill a bowl with water and set it beside the knives . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Next to him stood Comrade Clementis , who took off his own fur cap and set it on Gottwald 's bare head . |
11 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
12 | Lavender filled it half-full of water and carried it , together with a glass , into the classroom and set it on the teacher 's table . |
13 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
14 | It is always possible that some ingenious modification of its protective belt will lead to some spectacular discovery that will bring the programme to life again and set it on a progressive phase . |
15 | He filled the kettle carefully and set it on the gas stove but in spite of his care he slopped water . |
16 | She grasped each one by its golden nipple and set it on the scales . |
17 | Davide , called by his father to the piano , took up a sheet and set it on the mahogany lyre stand . |
18 | Curled up in a corner of the sofa , Alex took the Concorde ticket out of her bag once again , and set it on the cushions beside her . |
19 | Fumbling , panicking , he got the grey metal wastebin from under the desk and set it on top . |
20 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
21 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
22 | Turning away from him , she filled the kettle and set it on the stove . |
23 | He took her glass from her and set it on the top of the bookshelves , then he said softly , ‘ You look somehow — different . ’ |
24 | As they wrote out a ticket 30-year-old Pere Costa smashed the car 's windows , doused it in petrol and set it on fire before walking home yesterday and leaving the police to deal with the blaze . |
25 | Western diplomats who witnessed the violence said that they saw security force members place explosives in the car belonging to Laurent Gbagbo , the FPI leader , and set it on fire . |
26 | Travis took the mug and set it on the table . |
27 | A strange freedom , though ; one a barrage balloon would know if someone severed its cable and set it at liberty to wallow and wander at will . |
28 | Drag something out of the rave crowd 's past — in this case Trumpton — and set it to a bangin' tune . |
29 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
30 | She filled the big , black kettle and set it over the burner . |