Example sentences of "set it down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as you begin to draw back the snap punch , pick up your front foot and set it down diagonally forwards and outwards , using a thrusting action from the rear leg to cover ground . |
| 2 | Alix brought a chrome bowl out of an open cupboard , set it down ajangle with instruments of torture and turned on the generator for her machines . |
| 3 | He lifted the tray from her lap and set it down by the bed . |
| 4 | Svend Larsen pushed a pile of papers to one side of his desk , took a platter of open sandwiches from the top of his bookcase and set it down between Elisabeth and himself . |
| 5 | Quietly , humbly , Cameron took off his headset and set it down on the floor . |
| 6 | Toby had reappeared with the tray , and set it down on a small marble table , before Jackson was aware of his presence . |
| 7 | Jackson made his final attempt with the tea , then set it down with a grimace of distaste . |
| 8 | But she did n't carry it for long , ’ Harriet drained her cup and set it down noisily on the tray . |
| 9 | He took a purposeful swig of his beer and set it down . |
| 10 | Hari took the tea Beatie handed her and set it down quickly on the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 11 | I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window . |
| 12 | Boyd 's ability to take a controversial subject and set it down into explicable proportions is tested to the full in this work and the way in which the line fell into the Great Central 's hands together with the relationship of Benjamin Piercy 's trustees provides the kind of issues that keeps historians in correspondence for years to come . |
| 13 | He picked up a crystal decanter of amber liqueur , set it down . |
| 14 | I drained one of the small glasses and set it down close to the wall on the floor . |
| 15 | He turned it and set it down again . |
| 16 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 17 | She tossed the blouse on to a chair , took the glass Culley was offering , sipped , set it down , then unzipped her skirt and let it drop . |
| 18 | There 's something in his soul o'er which his melancholy sits on brood , and I do doubt the hatch and the disclose will be some danger ; which for to prevent I have in quick determination thus set it down : he shall with speed to England … |
| 19 | Anyway , I set it down , I lay it out . |
| 20 | Pete picked it up , looked at the label , and then set it down again ; and as he was doing this , Alina appeared in the doorway . |
| 21 | He carried the curved steel tray over to the cage and set it down just out of reach , leaving it in view as he went back for a chair . |
| 22 | Hennessy brought a chair of his own and set it down some distance away . |
| 23 | She drained what was left in her glass and set it down . |
| 24 | He emptied his cup and set it down on the table . |
| 25 | He turned , taking the thin paper box in which the ch'a brick had come and set it down , sweeping the fragments up into it , then dropped in the two largest pieces . |
| 26 | Taking a cooking bowl from the side he part filled it from the water jar and set it down on the ring . |
| 27 | Curval took out the slide — it seemed not as carefully as before — and set it down on the table beside him . |
| 28 | She left the broken shards lying and took the hammer back into the attic and set it down neatly by a bird of paradise in lime and cherry feathers . |
| 29 | I raised it to my lips , but set it down without tasting . |
| 30 | Lesley brought in a laden tray , set it down on a side-table , and distributed cups in silence . |