Example sentences of "set [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she said , then set me free . |
| 2 | Who set me free — warder or prisoner — I have no idea . |
| 3 | set me free , all right I 'm reading The Shining . |
| 4 | On the night of 11 October , a day after Hunt 's publication , Protestants gathered on the Shankill Road to attack the Catholic Unity Flats , threw stones and bottles at the British troops who were thwarting their advance , overturned cars and set them ablaze , and , unprecedentedly , directed gunfire at the RUC . |
| 5 | Police said ten armed men broke into a warehouse late on Tuesday night in the south of Medellin , Escobar 's home town , poured petrol over six Rolls-Royces , a Mercedes , a Porsche and 20 motorcycles and set them ablaze . |
| 6 | Put the woodlice in a small plastic box , bottle or tube to carry them home , then set them free in the pot . |
| 7 | Please set them free . |
| 8 | The folk of these towns and villages took their convicted witches , stood them in pitch-filled barrels and set them afire : in Forres stands a witches ' stone , site of such burnings — in thunder , lightning , or in rain ? |
| 9 | George and Marie simply ca n't be present at both establishments all the time : they have to appoint unit managers , set them clear targets and perhaps adopt more ‘ functional ’ roles themselves . |
| 10 | Forestry workers say joyriders who steal cars and set them alight in isolated woodland risk causing a devastating forest fire . |
| 11 | It is as if governments , having been given the gifts of technology , set them loose without an idea of how or even a wish to restrain them . |
| 12 | Most of us set ourselves personal targets : four laps within six minutes , for example . |
| 13 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 14 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 15 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 16 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 17 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 18 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 19 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 20 | Although we set ourselves high standards , if we do not meet your expectations and you are dissatisfied in some way we would like to know . |
| 21 | Cut de crap an set I free . |
| 22 | Cut de crap an set I free . |
| 23 | So cut de crap an set I free . |
| 24 | Waller 's double-glazing business was caught up in the plague when hooligans set his small factory on fire . |
| 25 | In effect we must differentiate ( 6 ) with respect to and set it equal to zero . |
| 26 | Crush a sugar lump and add it to the brandy in which the raisins were soaked ; warm the mixture , set it alight and drizzle it over the pudding just before bringing to table . |
| 27 | One night he went to her house , poured paraffin through the letter-box and on to the front door , and set it alight . |
| 28 | ‘ I hear they 've poured oil on the sea and set it alight ’ said a shore boy . |
| 29 | A 23-year-old woman poured paraffin over her 38-year-old lover and set it alight as he lay bound hand and foot , and blindfolded , ‘ wearing a pair of her open-crotch panties and nylon stockings ’ on a mattress in their living-room . |
| 30 | Eye-witnesses said that a man dressed like a beggar boarded a Greek tourist bus in central Istanbul on April 9 , poured an inflammable liquid over the upper deck and set it alight . |