Example sentences of "[coord] set [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 2 | Fru Blicher had organised eighty chairs from a nearby school and set them in a semi-circle round the platform . |
| 3 | In 1957 , by a coincidence , we both sorted letters and set them in order . |
| 4 | He baited his baskets and set them in the water , he was so cunning ! |
| 5 | Apparently , within Gaul the writing of history had no appeal from the early fifth century until Gregory determined to write an account which would put his own times on record and set them in perspective . |
| 6 | If Franz Kafka was to re-write The Trial and set it in Hampden Babylon , the novel 's alienated victim would be a goalkeeper , a solitary figure trapped between the posts , perpetually fearing the penalty . |
| 7 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 8 | Oliver corrected the clock and set it in motion . |
| 9 | And set it in men 's heads . |
| 10 | And sets them in perfect order |
| 11 | This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there . |
| 12 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 13 | As the animal jumped into the flames , Buddha manifested himself , snatched the hare from the fire and set him in the Moon . |
| 14 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 15 | Giggling — even her mother ! — they undressed her to her shift and set her in the bed , uncomfortably decorated with fruit and sheaves of barley , to await her husband . |
| 16 | But how naughty of you to pluck her and set her in a vase that only you see ! |
| 17 | Oh it was the first that ever started in Orkney , nobody ever thought You see before they used to cut their crop and set it in stokes . |
| 18 | Aye stood there and mind one halloween , the boys took it and set it in front of 's door . |