Example sentences of "his [noun] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | The touch of his fingers set every nerve-ending on fire . |
| 2 | His words set up a buzz in Sylvie 's mind . |
| 3 | To her horror , his words set off a ripple of excitement within her , and she felt a betraying warmth flood her cheeks . |
| 4 | She waved back gaily ; his shoulders set haughtily and he turned away . |
| 5 | Rising to his feet , Vitor stood in front of the fireplace with his legs set apart and his arms folded . |
| 6 | The glitter in his eyes set off a jangling alarm in her mind . |
| 7 | He was deadly serious , and the expression in his eyes set off her early warning system . |
| 8 | Taylor presents an elegant and well-argued position on the bibliographical control aspects of the thesis and its derived publications , using theses on librarianship as his data set . |
| 9 | His profile was strong and patrician , his nose straight , the bronzed skin clear and healthy , the neat scroll-work of his ears set close to his well-shaped head . |
| 10 | Vortigern consulted magicians who told him he should build a stronghold in Wales but as his workers set to work on a hill in Snowdonia their building materials sank into the earth . |
| 11 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 12 | Coleridge , still lame , chafed at his own confinement , especially when his friends set off one evening towards the hills , leaving him useless and lonely in Tom Poole 's garden arbour . |
| 13 | He and his friends set off right away across the sea . |
| 14 | In 1951 , during the period of the Vietnamese uprising against the French colonial rule , he walked through his country 's rich tropical forests to China , where he and his colleagues set up a temporary university . |
| 15 | Darwin and his followers set out to explain the global distribution of animals and plants by postulating a complex sequence of migrations limited by geographical barriers . |