Example sentences of "set his [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might wonder , ’ he grated , ‘ whether Blake will now be able to set his prices at a level low enough to undermine Lynx . |
| 2 | Even though Luke is not trying to answer the question , ‘ What happened ? ’ , he is at pains to set his account in a historical setting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Norwegian Stig Inge Bjornbye has set his sights on a quick call-up to the Liverpool side . |
| 5 | He has set his mind against a Maoist-style continuous revolution but says there are more changes and further fine tuning in the pipeline . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel . |
| 8 | AFTER spending all his working life in the pottery industry , a familiar figure at Barlaston is setting his sights on a new ‘ career ’ which will enable him to explore scenic routes around the world . |
| 9 | HAVING spent all his working life in the pottery industry , a Wedgwood executive is setting his sights on a new ‘ career ’ that will take him and his wife exploring the scenic routes , cities and towns of Britain , America , Canada and Europe . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Flicking the Arawak hanging aside , he set his gaze on the central mirror of the enhancer . |
| 12 | Richard of Gloucester gave another sigh and set his gaze on the narrow road ahead . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |