Example sentences of "set [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do set my bow in the cloud , and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth . |
| 2 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 3 | I would set my face against the casualisation of the Corporation . |
| 4 | Anyone can set his newspaper in the New York Times lettering style without paying the Times a nickle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is a fitting conclusion that God , who has so clearly guided at every stage , should set his seal on the marriage in the deep love of Isaac for Rebekah . |
| 7 | You could set your back against the roughened old trunk , plant your feet securely on the wide bough and gaze out undisturbed over the great surges of greenery . |