Example sentences of "set his [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought that he would be committed to tough reform of the welfare laws , that he would set his face against the racial balkanisation of America , that he would support free trade and eschew the idea that great dollops of federal money would revive the economy . |
| 2 | The sickening way in which Achilles sets his Myrmidons on the unarmed Hector , and then tells them to ‘ cry you all amain , ‘ Achilles has the might Hector slain ’ ’ shows that the morality of the Greeks is equally detestable . |
| 3 | By setting his move in the Thirties , and by turning that ambiguously seductive decade into what might be called a laide époque , Visconti discovered a necessary , hitherto unremarked fact about movie nostalgia : that it functions best when directly linked either to the history of the cinema ( as in The Damned , Helmut Berger 's Dietrich impersonation ) or history in the cinema ( newsreel footage , for example ) . |
| 4 | Setting his sights on the lucrative prizes up for grabs in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines sponsored event is classy Kenyan Jimmy Muindi , the current World Junior steeplechase champion . |
| 5 | Flicking the Arawak hanging aside , he set his gaze on the central mirror of the enhancer . |
| 6 | Richard of Gloucester gave another sigh and set his gaze on the narrow road ahead . |
| 7 | He waited until it was nearly too late , and then set his alarm for the old confident time of the morning and rang up his agent to tell him to say yes . |
| 8 | Here one sees again one of de Gaulle 's favourite techniques : the establishing of an authoritative text ( like the Bayeux speech or the self-determination speech ) to stake out a position and set his interlocutors on the defensive from the outset . |