Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the gun under my arm I was all set for the evening . |
| 2 | Not that he wished any harm to Rose , and it was n't as if she would be on her own because , being the wife of Peter , and he the stable man , she was well set in their cottage . |
| 3 | She was quickly set on fire by the destroyer HMS Somali and the LCAs came alongside the quay . |
| 4 | This chain of events led to British support of NATO becoming the basis of her Second Pillar of grand strategy , but it was to be another four years , and under Churchill 's last Administration , before it was finally set in concrete with the extension of the Brussels Treaty in the October 1954 . |
| 5 | Capra 's film was to be one of the most successful , acclaimed , and important films in the depression period because it was firmly set in contemporary America , but not in an America preoccupied with social problems . |
| 6 | It 's believed it was deliberately set upon by lurcher dogs . |
| 7 | He was not setting in motion the puppets of the past to destroy them . |
| 8 | It 's , I mean he played very well DaSilva I think , but in a completely different mode to the first innings , he was purely set on trying to save the game , trying to battle with , I think he did n't bowl very well , had n't bowled very many short balls in the day and that was perhaps the first one he 's had to receive and er he was caught in two minds really . |