Example sentences of "and set [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the wedding he and Margaret and Macnab moved to another flat , in Onslow Gardens , South Kensington , where the two men issued a prospectus and set themselves up as private tutors . |
| 5 | An , you know yourself , I 've come every week here and set them up in different bits and pieces . ’ |
| 6 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 7 | Picking up the drinks , she crossed the room and set them down on the trestle , careful to keep her face turned away from the window . |
| 8 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 9 | Cornelius retrieved both letter and card and set them down before him . |
| 10 | For a start , he kept losing the notes , and then , when he had managed to find them and set them out on his desk , he seemed to lack the will to start work on them . |
| 11 | She allowed Margaret Seymour-Strachey to bring in the tea things and set them out on the bedside table without speaking further . |
| 12 | Gradually harden them off and set them out in late May or early June when nights are no longer frosty . |
| 13 | Then take back the cards and set them out in an apparently random fashion and challenge a person to play you at pairs . |
| 14 | It is a mark of Hilton 's clarity of thought and practical spirituality that he should pick up the episcopal ideal of a composite life-style and set it up as the modus vivendi for a spiritually — minded temporal lord . |
| 15 | He made a radio receiver when we were children and set it up on the main bridge over the Salzach . |
| 16 | I then produce a 5 by 4 or a 10 by 8 colour transparency and set it up on a light table . |
| 17 | ‘ You took the Wheel to the site and set it up on the ramp ; was it left unattended at any time ? ’ |
| 18 | I have left the dialogue unchanged but removed some of the author 's comments and set it out in sociological rather than novelistic conventions . |
| 19 | Quietly , humbly , Cameron took off his headset and set it down on the floor . |
| 20 | Toby had reappeared with the tray , and set it down on a small marble table , before Jackson was aware of his presence . |
| 21 | I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window . |
| 22 | He emptied his cup and set it down on the table . |
| 23 | Taking a cooking bowl from the side he part filled it from the water jar and set it down on the ring . |
| 24 | Curval took out the slide — it seemed not as carefully as before — and set it down on the table beside him . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He lifted the tray from her lap and set it down by the bed . |
| 29 | Simply waggle the club and set it down in your normal address position . |
| 30 | ‘ A gin and tonic , please , ’ she replied , and , when he brought it over and set it down before her on a low table , ‘ It 's very good of you to see me , ’ she thought she should mention . |