Example sentences of "set [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set me up as a target . |
| 2 | you know had some of that and erm my fried breakfast and my toast and my cup of coffee and I thoroughly enjoyed that , set me up for the day that did . |
| 3 | ‘ A burst knee muscle also set me back by about three weeks , ’ he said , adding that the Fiji match would be an ideal opportunity to blood another flanker in front of a home crowd . |
| 4 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 5 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 6 | Picking up the drinks , she crossed the room and set them down on the trestle , careful to keep her face turned away from the window . |
| 7 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 8 | Cornelius retrieved both letter and card and set them down before him . |
| 9 | Then he went back to the cutlery drawer and , with a skill born of long practice , lobbed knives and forks over to Maisie , who set them down in her customary eccentric manner . |
| 10 | Set them out with a trowel in well watered ground . |
| 11 | For a start , he kept losing the notes , and then , when he had managed to find them and set them out on his desk , he seemed to lack the will to start work on them . |
| 12 | She allowed Margaret Seymour-Strachey to bring in the tea things and set them out on the bedside table without speaking further . |
| 13 | Gradually harden them off and set them out in late May or early June when nights are no longer frosty . |
| 14 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 15 | Set them out like this okay so that 's three fours or four threes make twelve okay . |
| 16 | He 'd kill Barak and set you up as the fall guy — I believe that 's the term you Americans use . |
| 17 | In the meantime , I 'll talk to ‘ C ’ and set you up from my end . |
| 18 | Our holidays depart from six regional airports — Heathrow , Gatwick , Birmingham , Glasgow , Manchester and Bristol and set you down in one of 16 Italian airports . |
| 19 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 20 | Set her up with her own bar in Nassau . |
| 21 | Set him up to be a laughing-stock . |
| 22 | Set him by till hee 's sober … |
| 23 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 24 | ‘ We set it up as a pilot programme to answer the call for more training in the field . |
| 25 | He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach . |
| 26 | I then produce a 5 by 4 or a 10 by 8 colour transparency and set it up on a light table . |
| 27 | One brave man grabbed a Lewis gun and , to save time , set it up on a rubbish bin rather than the tripod and fired away . |
| 28 | ‘ You took the Wheel to the site and set it up on the ramp ; was it left unattended at any time ? ’ |
| 29 | Looking at the level plan , which is the basic one base plan and level plan What we 're really saying there with that plan , whatever you set it up for today , |
| 30 | Well it 's a repeat of Saturday is n't it , set it up for then , sets it up for now and it 's three nil against . |