Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bloke they are trying to set me up with . |
| 2 | ‘ He wanted to set me up in a flat he said he owned . |
| 3 | So the ship was to go briefly near ground-level to set me down by tractor-beam . |
| 4 | At the top of the social scale the five largest houses in 1670 had five hearths apiece , which was hardly grandiose but was sufficient to set them apart from the rest . |
| 5 | Where several holes were to be tired it was possible to set them off in a desired order by lighting in appropriate sequence . |
| 6 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 7 | Pray that they may be people who rely on God 's healing and allow him to set them back on the track of feeding the lambs . |
| 8 | That 's why you carefully cultivate eccentric habits to set you apart from others . |
| 9 | ‘ What about asking Albert 's to set you up with a really quiet-looking business outfit for New York ? |
| 10 | ‘ He 's more likely to set you up as a courier on an over-sixties package holiday to Majorca . ’ |
| 11 | Something hot to set you up for the journey . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If only I had the means to set you up in a house where I could visit you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When my name is cleared , ’ he said thoughtfully , ‘ I 'd like to set you up in better premises , supply you with as much leather as you need and get you an apprentice or two . ’ |
| 14 | If you are totally fed up , one extra bar of chocolate or cake or any one single luxury item is not going to set you back to square one . |
| 15 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 16 | When an attempt is made to set him up as a Saint , it is scarcely possible for any man of good sense who knows the history of his times to preserve his gravity . |
| 17 | His family could n't afford to set him up as an independent farmer . |
| 18 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 19 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 20 | Patrick was studying medicine , and it was her wish to set him up in a practice of his own one day . |
| 21 | An attempt in 1775 to set him up in Jamaica was no more enduring . |
| 22 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 23 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 24 | Looking back at his forlorn figure as the car had accelerated away , she 'd wondered if there might be some way to set him back on his rails . |
| 25 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 26 | There are several characteristics of the breed that seem to set it apart from other British cattle , though appearances can be deceptive . |
| 27 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 28 | The data is then made public ; the full dataset and the commands to set it up for processing by the statistical package SPSS- X can be obtained from the Economic and Social Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex for the cost of processing . |
| 29 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 30 | You 're just trying to amuse me — to set it up for me so that I can walk up and down the room gasping and shouting ‘ I do n't believe it ! ’ |