Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 2 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 3 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 4 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 5 | The aim was to separate the individual membership section of the Party from the unions and to set it up in a relationship reminiscent of that with the ILP before 1932 . |
| 6 | Got ta set them up in the machine room . |
| 7 | I will set them out in the order in which I propose to deal with them . |
| 8 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's twelve years old , nice old girl , good mouth and nice manners which puts her ahead of some women — and she wo n't set you down in the dirt . |
| 10 | → Do you realise , Steve , that a professional standard , concert classical guitar could set you back in the region of £7,000 , and that orchestral instruments regularly change hands for much more ? |
| 11 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 12 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 13 | Regarding the Marshall , I criticised the fact that you could n't set it up in a rack with , say , a radio system and leave it rigged , because you 'd have to unplug it every time you used it . |
| 14 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 15 | You do it down there , you set it up in the middle and you set it up really nice and cosy . |
| 16 | Set it down in the fire . |
| 17 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 18 | He sets it up in the living room . |
| 19 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |
| 20 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 21 | She came into the room , setting the drink down on the table , then went across to the woman , taking the bundle from her and setting it back in the cot . |
| 22 | Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners . |
| 23 | She went to sleep , she was so heavy that he thought he could barely carry her another step but he got her home and set her down in the warmth of the kitchen . |
| 24 | Skinner released Nina from his protection and set her down in an armchair . |
| 25 | However , when Franca found herself so suddenly , for two days and in such a new way , alone in the house , her vast restless self-awareness , her life energy , set her off in a fresh direction . |
| 26 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |