Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [pron] to " in BNC.
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1 | If I set it to the same frequency as the only Mark I Super C64 in existence , I might just be able to contact an old friend of ours . ’ |
2 | Next day , I set myself to writing out my dream , as Horace Walpole did with his dream of Otranto . |
3 | Scrambling to her feet , she set herself to rights , before stalking back to the house . |
4 | And … and she set us to the station , and … and Mama promised to write . ’ |
5 | At last the little flame flared and she set it to the paper , watching the end blacken , smoulder and curl as it burned . |
6 | Instead , having conducted a further searching examination , he set me to the cataloguing of the little rituals , those magical forms of thought that I myself had developed in order to cope with the stress of eidesis . |
7 | This was not one of life 's big surprises and actually it set one to wondering if he might be the first ever since the whole shameless , glittering , addictive business began back in 1927 . |