Example sentences of "set him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set him as a foreigner : untrustworthy , slyly clever , un-English . |
| 2 | It set him above other people . |
| 3 | And for fatherless Havelock Wilson , sea captain 's grandson , it was his storytelling grandmother who set him on his life path , despite a mother who banned him from the harbour at Sunderland . |
| 4 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 5 | Bashful Barry believes it was his failure with girls as a schoolboy that set him on the path to fame as a film buff . |
| 6 | After 10 years of torment , Kiranjit Ahluwalia , 36 , threw petrol over sleeping husband Deepak and set him on fire . |
| 7 | Whereas a white youth may have visions of becoming a successful sportsman , his parents may have a strong enough hold over him to deflect him and set him on course for a ‘ straight ’ job ; often this is not the case with blacks . |
| 8 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 9 | Sometimes the violent power of the Spirit is seen in almost physical terms , as when the Spirit of the Lord entered into Ezekiel and set him on his feet , or lifted him up , or brought him out into the valley ( Ezek. 2:2 , 3:12 , 37:1 ) . |
| 10 | When Appio did not listen to her she would get angry , lift him like a feather and set him on top of a chest of drawers . |
| 11 | He started badly yesterday , dropping a shot at the fourth , but a birdie at the seventh set him on his way . |
| 12 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 13 | As the animal jumped into the flames , Buddha manifested himself , snatched the hare from the fire and set him in the Moon . |
| 14 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 15 | Cornelius lifted him down and set him upon the copper map . |