Example sentences of "she set [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 She , however , was on duty throughout , and she set us up for the KGB photographers .
2 ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas .
3 She set it down on a footstool beside the open fire , then leaned across to take something from a bowl on the mantlepiece and sprinkle it on the burning logs .
4 She set it down on the kitchen table , stroked it with one finger .
5 Seeing her husband , she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable .
  Next page