Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 2 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 3 | er and and and nice to know that we want to establish contact and you may be aware that we 've had this plan , and , and what we want it to achieve is so and so , and we 'd like to set it up in this way . |
| 4 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 5 | Gradually harden them off and set them out in late May or early June when nights are no longer frosty . |
| 6 | Most organisers set them rigidly in straight rows without checking whether some other design might give everyone a better view and provide more working and movement space . |
| 7 | Our holidays depart from six regional airports — Heathrow , Gatwick , Birmingham , Glasgow , Manchester and Bristol and set you down in one of 16 Italian airports . |
| 8 | ‘ I wo n't set her up in another trap . |
| 9 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 10 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 11 | It embodies the decision impugned and apart from the definitions I must set it out in full . |
| 12 | I have left the dialogue unchanged but removed some of the author 's comments and set it out in sociological rather than novelistic conventions . |
| 13 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
| 14 | This is still a binding holiday agreement on both you and us , but we have set it out in plain English , in a way that we hope you will find informative and easy to read . |
| 15 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |