Example sentences of "[coord] set [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A combination of sleek styling and set curls by the Jazz Hair Co |
| 2 | In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general . |
| 3 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 4 | ‘ They brought her out with a gun in her back , a woman of seventy , and set fire to the place while she watched . |
| 5 | His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet . |
| 6 | On Thursday night , vandals smashed through a heavily padlocked , steel-panelled door and set fire to the stock . |
| 7 | Thus despite the fact that the Thatcher government in the early 1980s was committed to a tight control of money supply and set targets for the broad monetary base M0 , and despite the fact that the authorities have expressed interest in monetary base control , this has not been the form of policy pursued . |
| 8 | He came home from the July meeting at Newmarket in 1904 and set men on the following week . |