Example sentences of "[verb] set [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By autumn evenings Orion has set soon after darkness , but Sirius and Canopus are still high .
2 Supply control measures would also be introduced which would encourage set aside for cereals , lower milk quotas and place upper limits on sheep premia .
3 Her mind had set irrevocably into middle age when she was about ten .
4 During the hours they had set aside for practising , such girls are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus , where they are instructed on the difference between Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene with a degree of rigour reminiscent of their earliest scale-drumming days .
5 He stayed awake and after midnight he went to the room which Kate 's mother had set aside for his father to write about birds in .
6 I tabled a question asking how much the Government had set aside for bad debts , and the answer showed that not one penny had been set aside .
7 In my view , for reasons I have set forth at length elsewhere , I believe that the philosophy of animal rights is the right philosophy .
8 ‘ But now it is up to the Catholic officials and the county to find the money from the £243,000 I have set aside for church school repairs .
9 This year I think it 's the first week in July we have set aside for this purpose .
10 Installation is simple , as the units merely need setting securely in position and the delivery hose from the pump inserted into the uppermost one before being fully operational .
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