Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] set [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to set the record straight . |
| 2 | I want to set the record straight . |
| 3 | I try to set an example , and I am more than willing to accept any degree of personal criticism and , indeed , get a lot of it — some of it rather hurtful . |
| 4 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 5 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 6 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I longed to set the record straight , but Peter was desperate not to look like a failure in front of you . |
| 8 | And er I 've set the bucket as well . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've set the table outside on the terrace , ’ Fernando told her , stepping through from the kitchen beyond . |
| 10 | I wish to set the record straight on personal assistance schemes , raised by Malcolm Stone ( Letters , 8 April ) . |
| 11 | I WISH to set the record straight on the issue of the works and health committee 's decision to introduce a ‘ Caring Contractor ’ scheme for Darlington . |
| 12 | Right , yeah i I 've got a , I need to set a date with Catherine , an appraisal and then we 'll be , are you not looking forward to it ? |
| 13 | I have to set the record straight . |
| 14 | This year , I have set the Employment Service the task of placing 1.3 million people in jobs — 5,000 every working day — and it is achieving that target . |
| 15 | I considered setting the whin bushes alight , but the flowers always looked cheerful when they came out , and the bushes smelled better fresh than burned , so I did n't . |
| 16 | do you want to set a date for another meeting just now or do you want to get in touch later George ? |
| 17 | Adalbert of Bremen claims to be spiritual overlord of the Orkneys and Norway : do you want to set a precedent there ? ’ |
| 18 | Her significance as Prime Minister is that she has set an example ; by pushing to the outer limits of her authority , making decisions with small groups of ministers and advisers , and closely involving herself in Whitehall promotions and the policies of departments , ‘ the repertoire of Prime Ministerial tasks has been extended ’ . |
| 19 | Now you 've set a budget which is below the level of at which the Oxfordshire County Council would be rate capped , or Poll Tax capped . |
| 20 | So you that one second time instructions from that point unlikely very very unlikely so you 've set the scene with a good strong step one , so looking at each indiv individual part of the open , which parts do you think you could leave out ? |
| 21 | When she had to set a plate before him she could smell pomade on his hair , and her gaze was drawn to the long , clever hands which had once touched her body so intimately and unprofessionally . |
| 22 | Now she had to let her husband know , oh-so-artlessly , that she had set a guard on Marion that he could n't break without scandal . |
| 23 | If you had set the pitch of the blades using a pitch gauge this will , of course , upset your careful adjustments . |
| 24 | You allow people to say what they like , write it down , you have to set a time limit because people get tired , it is a very sort of , it takes a lot of energy to do this , and concentrate on it . |
| 25 | So you have to set the boundaries for friends , in just the same way that you do for parents . |
| 26 | If you have to set the commands manually in either the config.sys or the autoexec.bat files , you will have to use either the Edlin , or Edit commands . |
| 27 | If you have set a strategy on the lines described in Chapter 7 , the way to begin to judge whether you have a good advertisement is to go to your target group , or at least a few of them , and find out if the ad affects them in the way you intended . |
| 28 | While one can not assert unequivocally that determination will win , in the balance of life you can alter direction more easily on the move than you can if you are static , and if you have set the direction in this way it will almost alter itself . |
| 29 | In order to display a date in 1-2-3 you need to set a date format . |
| 30 | I think you need to set a time actually . |