Example sentences of "set [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catherine took the chair he set for her , and extracted her notebook from her bag . |
| 2 | The Colégio Church has a baroque façade , with four marble statues of saints of the Society of Jesus set into it . |
| 3 | In such conditions , concentrated fire from the archers on the wings wrought such havoc that the French could provide but little resistance to those English who set upon them . |
| 4 | The young midfielder was an unknown Chelsea reserve when a gang set upon him as he played in a park five-a-side in West London last summer . |
| 5 | He was walking back from a Didcot Pub , when a gang set upon him as he took a short cut across a railway footbridge . |
| 6 | They now practically set upon her , pulling off her hat , her coat , and unbuttoning her dress from the back . |
| 7 | Fen made no comment about the meal she set before him , but , she noticed , he ate with relish and from time to time she felt him observing her contemplatively . |
| 8 | But er country girls they set to it and work , they 're good workers . |