Example sentences of "set [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Hankins shows you how to set it to best advantage . |
| 2 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 3 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 4 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 5 | There are two classes of printers , one called newspaper hands and set nothing but solid matter ; and properly trained compositors who have been taught to do jobbing , tabular work and everything . " |
| 6 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 7 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 8 | This might give vital stimulation to others and set them on new lines of discovery . |
| 9 | Axelrod translated all 15 strategies into one common programming language , and set them against one another in one big computer . |
| 10 | They set something like 50,000 km of net a night , enough to go around the equator one and a quarter times . |
| 11 | As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll set mine for five-to . |
| 13 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 14 | I can not recall whether it was a Labour Government who set it at that figure . |
| 15 | More generally , if we are to incorporate our results into a theory of ordinary language comprehension , we must explicate the relation between experimental task and the ‘ tasks ’ that people set themselves in ordinary reading and listening . |
| 16 | Naturally , the trade associations involved — and , we have no doubt , the very great bulk of their members firmly set themselves against this type of lending . |
| 17 | Cartoon characters chased each other across the screen , glamorous women won the hearts of kings , innocent settlers set themselves against ruthless cattle-ranchers , war heroes plotted and schemed and died for their beloved country . |
| 18 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 19 | Foolishly , she had set them opposite each other . |
| 20 | No-one has set me above this people . |
| 21 | I did then go about the task Mr Farraday had set me with some dedication ; I spent many hours working on the staff plan , and at least as many hours again thinking about it as I went about other duties or as I lay awake after retiring . |
| 22 | It is important to emphasise at the outset the magnitude of the task which the applicant has set himself by this appeal . |
| 23 | Back in the hall he pushed the thermostat up to seventy-five degrees ; he doubted if his mother had ever set it above sixty . |
| 24 | Now , Taheb had set it with large earthenware tubs , from which a profusion of tall dark-green plants grew . |
| 25 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |
| 26 | I have no quarrel with that , provided he sets them in that order . |
| 27 | And sets them in perfect order |
| 28 | FOR accurate timekeepers , a watch that automatically sets itself to special radio time signals will be launched in Europe later this year . |
| 29 | Her attitude toward individual patrons sets her beyond most of her contemporaries in defending the integrity of her work . |
| 30 | By setting them to different scales harmonic progressions which would be unplayable on a single harp are made possible . |