Example sentences of "set [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
2 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
3 | We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society . |
4 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
5 | sets us at a painterly remove from decorously observed suffering and does little to prepare us for the replacement of the distant tangled hair of Ariadne by immediate presence of the directly primitive |
6 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |