Example sentences of "set [pron] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He set me back weeks . |
| 2 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 3 | And set it back to a , to a Panasonic K X P Eleven Twenty Four , which will be on the list . |
| 4 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 5 | Again er even frosting blast when even other trees er specific trees are erm alright , it may have been caught in that draught and set it back a little , you never know . |