Example sentences of "he set the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix Labs did manage to walk away from Judge Debevoise 's courtroom with a minor victory : it got him to set the record straight as to how many copies of 32V were actually distributed . |
| 2 | It will also help him set the stock level for each item , so that he has sufficient stock , but not too much . |
| 3 | ( In his Mass ‘ Tota pulchra es ’ , for instance , he sets the Benedictus as a canon for tenor and bass . ) |
| 4 | He sets the scene , intervenes , sums up . |
| 5 | Here he sets the scene , and interviews Jan Urban , the leader of Civic Forum , and Valtre Komarek , a key economic minister |
| 6 | He set the village up as a separate body even then under a charitable trust , which it continues to be to this day . |
| 7 | He set the bowl down , then lifted the boy gently , cradling him in a half-sitting position . |
| 8 | He set the basket down on the low table by the oven , then turned back , looking at the boy . |
| 9 | When Charles received the ( initially ) doubtful title of emperor from Pope Leo III on Christmas Day , 800 , he set the scene for later claims that the Pope had the power to install , or to depose , the Emperor . |
| 10 | He wanted me to do you and he set the scene . |
| 11 | He set the hotel alarm clock touched . |
| 12 | He set the dish before the bars as a visible inducement . |
| 13 | Yet he set the dish aside and noticed the shadow pass her face . |
| 14 | This tale is fiction , but it shows the kind of success story which a twelfth-century Englishman could expect his audience to swallow ; and it is probably significant that he set the story in Italy , the land of merchants and wealth . |
| 15 | Looping a line over the crosstrees , he set the storm jib , sheeting it out to port in hope of putting the greater strain on the starboard stays . |
| 16 | He looked at Carrie as he set the candle down to give himself two free hands for the goose . |
| 17 | Sweating profusely , he set the fuse to just less than two seconds . |
| 18 | I just remember the time he came into erm and he had a fag and he set the alarm off . |
| 19 | and he set the alarm off |
| 20 | He set the phone down with exaggerated care . |
| 21 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 22 | He set the tone by drawing out a plan of the Manchester office . |
| 23 | For two hours he 'd have me swimming after a brush held in front of my nose , while he set the pace up and down the side of the baths . |
| 24 | So he set the play in a hotel room , and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in . |
| 25 | He set the file down . |
| 26 | He set the car alarm , and went up to the door . |
| 27 | He set the kettle down with a rap on the draining-board . |
| 28 | Taking a chair , he set the camera up in the yard outside , bending over for a moment to fiddle with it . |
| 29 | He set the book down . |
| 30 | He set the tray down gently by the bedside , and picked up what was left of the mummy . |