Example sentences of "[adv] set [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
| 2 | Another housemaster in describing what he would ideally like to do also set it in the context of his sense of powerlessness . |
| 3 | In fact it was rather modernism , as its name implies ( from latin modo , just now , or hodie , today ) , that tried to awake from the nightmare of history , self-consciously setting itself against the past , and rejecting forms of historical understanding . |
| 4 | Kim took the book back , then set it beside the others on the shelf . |
| 5 | She drank from her cup , then set it on the table . |
| 6 | I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job . |
| 7 | It was good enough however to set her on the way to winning vital experience — and other roles soon followed . |