Example sentences of "set [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the ship was to go briefly near ground-level to set me down by tractor-beam . |
| 2 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 3 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 4 | If you are totally fed up , one extra bar of chocolate or cake or any one single luxury item is not going to set you back to square one . |
| 5 | Although he was pleased that they had managed to set everything up on time , he continued to mutter about the remaining android being alive , threatening them from somewhere on the planet . |
| 6 | She said she did n't mind Elizabeth being Queen at all , and had no doubt she was a very good one too , but that it was evil and presumptuous of her — the illegitimate daughter of an excommunicated heretic and a beheaded adulteress — to set herself up as defender of the Faith . |
| 7 | The alternative was to use her capital to set herself up in business . |
| 8 | Anxious about his prospects of liberation , the slave Moschos went for a night of incubation to the temple and had a dream in which the divine pair Amphiaraus and Hygieia ordered him to write down what he had seen and to set it up in stone by the altar . |
| 9 | As commercial disputants look to other means of settling disputes — tribunal , arbitration , alternative dispute resolution — it is hard enough that law firms are having to set themselves up in competition with non-lawyers to provide these services . |
| 10 | This was particularly so in Orkney where the income from the oil industry was being used by young Orcadians to set themselves up in farming . |
| 11 | If the Purchaser wishes specific matters to be warranted it should set them out in detail . |
| 12 | A self-reliant smallholder with a good workshop could set himself up for barn-drying quite cheaply , connecting a second-hand electric or internal combustion motor to a suitable turbo-fan , and leading the air through ducts on the barn floor . |
| 13 | If you have got any sense , a lump sum of 400k can easily set you up for life . |
| 14 | There we are curly , and that 'll set you out of mischief |
| 15 | We shall set him up in advertising , |
| 16 | They then put the Speak'n' Spell on Asmar 's desk , set it up in accordance with the maker 's instructions , and punched in their code words . |
| 17 | I raised it to my lips , but set it down without tasting . |
| 18 | As his eyes fell on the crucifix he realized that he 'd always loathed it , and in a small gesture of defiance he lifted it off its hook and set it down on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 19 | It was very well knitted and the gorgeous yarn used set it off to perfection . |
| 20 | The opportunity to gain this type of employment on the island encouraged a number of young people to return from the mainland of Scotland and use the off-farm income to help set themselves up in farming . |
| 21 | ‘ You set yourself up as judge and jury , and yet who are you to decide matters — a man who spent the evening philandering with his secretary ! ’ |
| 22 | They had previously won compensation of 1 million yen each for eight former employees dismissed in the ‘ red purge ’ and had set them up in business near the company 's housing project . |
| 23 | These are ‘ signatures ’ and , if , in early books , the printer has set them out in sequence right at the end , perhaps with the colophon , he has supplied the ‘ register of the signatures ’ . |
| 24 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 25 | I bet some silly bugger has set it off by accident . |
| 26 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 27 | He was setting it up by way of defence to her application for leave to proceed on the judgment . |
| 28 | ‘ I like thinking something through and then setting it down on paper . |
| 29 | These were only the official words setting it out in writing . |
| 30 | The first king of the Franks established titles 1 to 62 [ for 65 ? ] , and he set them out for judgement . |