Example sentences of "set [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the main thrust of Kandel 's findings and the theoretical framework within which he set them during the 1970s and 1980s have until recently scarcely been challenged . |
| 2 | And he gave thanks to God for the grace which had been vouchsafed to him , and said to his mother , that he did not think it good to keep the Kings in captivity , but to let them go freely ; and he set them at liberty and bade them depart . |
| 3 | You just lifted them you and you just set them like that . |
| 4 | Plumping up the pillows , she set them against the padded headrest and left , closing the door behind her . |
| 5 | The operating philosophy set them by founder is as potent today as it was then : ‘ You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well . ’ |
| 6 | Then , bowing respectfully , he set them in the jar before the tiny image of his great-great-grandfather . |
| 7 | He set me on my feet . |
| 8 | Instead , having conducted a further searching examination , he set me to the cataloguing of the little rituals , those magical forms of thought that I myself had developed in order to cope with the stress of eidesis . |
| 9 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 10 | Or set himself on fire like a Buddhist monk , but accidentally . |
| 11 | A MAN who doused his clothes with petrol and set himself on fire in a bank in Co Tipperary was under intensive care in hospital today . |
| 12 | Moments before he set himself on fire , Mr Chittenden phoned the Daily Post 's office in Chester , asking staff there to go to the United Friendly offices in Chester 's St Werburgh Street . |
| 13 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency , which was due to end next year , was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind . |
| 14 | This one man set himself above the bloody incident in the snow and the yelping sound of the siren . |
| 15 | Ratagan set himself to starting a fire whilst the rest rubbed down the horses and searched for firewood . |
| 16 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 17 | In Transylvania such sentiments were attacked by the right-wing Romanian nationalist organization , Vatra Romaneasca ( " Romanian Hearth " ) , which set itself in opposition to the rising tide of expectation on the part of Hungary , the unspoken Hungarian aim , in Vatra 's opinion , being the incorporation of Transylvania into Hungary . |
| 18 | This was not one of life 's big surprises and actually it set one to wondering if he might be the first ever since the whole shameless , glittering , addictive business began back in 1927 . |
| 19 | We set everything in monotype , and all these display headline faces copied out of old type books and then I left and it was almost like people were saying ‘ now what ’ , erm ‘ what are you going to do after that ? ’ and I said ‘ what do you mean ? ’ . |
| 20 | This division set something of a precedent . |
| 21 | THE Bangor club set something of a record yesterday when their junior team won the NIBA Tyrell Tanks Division one championship with a victory over Lisnagarvey . |
| 22 | THE Bangor club set something of a record yesterday when their junior team won the NIBA Tyrell Tanks Division one championship with a victory over Lisnagarvey . |
| 23 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |
| 24 | Lesley set herself to be the most enlightening and intelligent of guides . |
| 25 | Scrambling to her feet , she set herself to rights , before stalking back to the house . |
| 26 | How would he have felt , he sometimes asked himself , if he had married a woman who set herself against his ethnic origins ? |
| 27 | She thought of Africa and its special ordeals with greedy excitement ; she set herself against its vast and glorious horizons . |
| 28 | I set him as a foreigner : untrustworthy , slyly clever , un-English . |
| 29 | It set him above other people . |
| 30 | 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 . |