Example sentences of "[conj] set it [prep] the " 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 | Just choose the correct printer , and set it as the default printer from the menu option and you , your Star printer , and Windows will all be best of friends . |
| 3 | She put his tea down on the table in the lounge , sought out the Scotch and set it beside the cup . |
| 4 | She watched him roll back his sleeves , then fill a bowl with water and set it beside the knives . |
| 5 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 6 | Lavender filled it half-full of water and carried it , together with a glass , into the classroom and set it on the teacher 's table . |
| 7 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 8 | He filled the kettle carefully and set it on the gas stove but in spite of his care he slopped water . |
| 9 | She grasped each one by its golden nipple and set it on the scales . |
| 10 | Davide , called by his father to the piano , took up a sheet and set it on the mahogany lyre stand . |
| 11 | Curled up in a corner of the sofa , Alex took the Concorde ticket out of her bag once again , and set it on the cushions beside her . |
| 12 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 13 | Turning away from him , she filled the kettle and set it on the stove . |
| 14 | He took her glass from her and set it on the top of the bookshelves , then he said softly , ‘ You look somehow — different . ’ |
| 15 | Travis took the mug and set it on the table . |
| 16 | She filled the big , black kettle and set it over the burner . |
| 17 | Maufe imported Dutch brick under instruction from the Dutch Mr Detterding and set it round the flints , which were ‘ knapped ’ , that is , cut to make a smooth face rather than left whole . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Drawing on the 100,000 letters and 21,000 drawings in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation , Mr Wilk provides a detailed history of the construction and later fortunes of the office , and sets it within the context of Wright 's career . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've got ter see 'ow we 're doin' , 'ow much we 're spendin' , an' set it against the takin 's . ’ |