Example sentences of "[pron] set [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone is short of cash , and nobody set on the goal of having a station could argue with the idea of combining the efforts . |
| 2 | Muttering beneath her breath she set to the preparation of the tall boy 's breakfast . |
| 3 | Before the death there were up to 15 dogs in the house , as the family 's bitch produced two litters which were both kept — one set in the kitchen , and the other in a bedroom . |
| 4 | So the dual role of any human being as a producer and consumer is torn apart , with one set against the other . |
| 5 | And the traps he set for the villains would have killed them . |
| 6 | He usually came in the middle of the day , pushing something ahead of him which he set by the side of the benches before taking some food out of a box . |
| 7 | JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe . |
| 8 | We needed to alternate between the past and the future , and while we had two good historical scripts in , none of the writers David had commissioned had yet produced anything set in the future which we could use . |