Example sentences of "be set before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because what she wants is smaller and less costly than what has been set before her , she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants , however troublesome it may be to others … |
| 2 | Never a season passes without something new being set before us ; the resources of the rose seem limitless . |
| 3 | I confess to not being in a position to bring his painstaking research into question so I shall confine myself to what is set before me . |
| 4 | An array of instances , almost of specimens , is set before us ; and we are invited to make our own observations , inferring from them as much as they will bear . |
| 5 | In 1910 , when the Golden Jubilee of Thomas Street was being celebrated , the Quarterly Board looked at all the work of God on the Circuit and among other things they recorded their feeling that ‘ in Edenderry there is set before us an open door and we are determined to enter in . ’ |
| 6 | Meal times were silent : everyone at the table in time for grace to be said ; everyone eating what was set before him . |
| 7 | He seized the Scotch that was set before him and drained it . |