Example sentences of "set [pron] at the " 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 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 .
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