Example sentences of "[pers pn] sets [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 2 | She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it . |
| 3 | When a honey bee discovers a flower , for example , she sets in motion a learning sequence which seems utterly mechanical in nature . |
| 4 | The standards it sets on promotion are lower even than Britain 's . |
| 5 | Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest . |
| 6 | Transfer the icing cut-outs to a sheet of foil or non-stick paper , and rest the ‘ birthday cake ’ cut-out on a piece of foil wrapped around a cake tin , so that it sets into a curved shape . |
| 7 | The moon comes up during the day time it 's up in the day time it sets during the day time . |
| 8 | By the time it sets off the smoke detector , the corridor is blocked . |
| 9 | Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick . |
| 10 | It sets in a coniferous haze |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the design comes directly from the traditional vocabulary and , with thought , it can be performed by dancers who possess strong and precise technique and who can enjoy the challenge it sets before them . |
| 12 | He sets to work at once , restoring the chapel at his place in Lincolnshire , then moves rapidly on from his main house in Bedfordshire ( already improved ) to a third estate in Kent which needs attention . |
| 13 | He 's an obedient kind of fellow , and after being kicked out of the castle by his master he sets about his task with a determination unusual for someone with such a cowardly disposition . |
| 14 | With the able support of a toff QC friend , Crispin , he sets about organising a petition . |
| 15 | Here he talks about he sets about creating these site-specific works |
| 16 | First , most clients tell the solicitor what they want and he sets about getting it for them . |
| 17 | So he sets about sorting it out . |
| 18 | He supports these contentions with the words of parents of children with trisomy 21 whose reactions to , and following , the birth of their children belie the simplified professional stereotypes which he sets beside them . |
| 19 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 20 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |