Example sentences of "set [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 2 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 3 | There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . " |
| 4 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 5 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 6 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 7 | ‘ They sometimes set them on fire , and you can see hillsides of charred stumps in some places . ’ |
| 8 | With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory . |
| 9 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 10 | Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history . |
| 11 | As Maggie took the things from the tray and set them on the table she said , ‘ I know what you 're thinking : we 're slightly barmy . ’ |
| 12 | When the cream has gone fill them with daffodils , set them on a table centre of tawny orange silk with a bordering of asparagus fern . |
| 13 | " Put two quarts of gooseberries into about a quart of water , and set them on the fire . |
| 14 | This might give vital stimulation to others and set them on new lines of discovery . |
| 15 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 16 | Nationalist slogans , ‘ pulled out of the murkiest depths of history ’ , were chanted , and the crowd , armed with metal posts , sticks and stones , then proceeded to beat up local citizens , overturn cars and set them on fire , and smash the windows of shops and other public buildings . |
| 17 | At the meetings called in different villages , some proposed a raid on the Rebecca , as the new sloop was called ; others planned to murder the guards in the food stores behind the stockade at Belmont and set them on fire ; but when Dulé and his companions sailed in from Oualie to discuss the best strategy , they suggested slow , persistent attrition : waylaying the occasional soldier or watch outside the compound , or in the sturdy dwellings of the English leaders , until the islanders had accumulated at least twenty guns , as well as the necessary tackle to go with them , the gunpowder kegs and pouches for shot , the ramrods to load the barrels . |
| 18 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 19 | Then in extra time , Ian Ferguson rifled home his fourth goal of the season from 20 yards to bring Rangers within two games of retaining the cup which set them on their way to the treble last year . |
| 20 | We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society . |
| 21 | When the people in the world awaken to the rights that are theirs , governments will no longer dare to defy them and set them at nought . ’ |
| 22 | Axelrod translated all 15 strategies into one common programming language , and set them against one another in one big computer . |
| 23 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 24 | The realisation that we teach children more effectively if we understand them fully and set them against the social and cultural conditions in which they live and grow , places an expectation upon the teacher which can not be prescribed by contract . |
| 25 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to examine his ballets and discover that he mostly set them in countries possessing easily recognised characteristics . |
| 26 | Fru Blicher had organised eighty chairs from a nearby school and set them in a semi-circle round the platform . |
| 27 | In 1957 , by a coincidence , we both sorted letters and set them in order . |
| 28 | He baited his baskets and set them in the water , he was so cunning ! |
| 29 | Apparently , within Gaul the writing of history had no appeal from the early fifth century until Gregory determined to write an account which would put his own times on record and set them in perspective . |
| 30 | Set them in the wall . |