Example sentences of "set [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 2 | Set him on the right path with a good education . |
| 3 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 4 | His dinner was l sitting under the grill , I lift it out , set it on the fucking table , and I says I 'm away in here to waken |
| 5 | She 'll set us on the right track . ’ |
| 6 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 7 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |