Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had to set it up this way . |
| 2 | and you have to be careful with the master volume , not to set it too high , oh let's have a look well you ca n't really do it on this one |
| 3 | WHEN my NHS three-tooth bridge had to be replaced , I found to my horror that what had cost £150 three years ago would now set me back some £650 if supplied privately . |
| 4 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 5 | Some uninterruptible power supply units can set you back several hundred pounds but smaller units , suitable for one PC , are relatively cheap . |
| 6 | Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs . |
| 7 | Sure , you should buy the original albums , but for a substantial taster then this will set you back fewer readies than all ten Zeppelin LPs . |
| 8 | Well for English literature they set you so many books to study , that was one of them . |
| 9 | It it does seem to me that the Parish Council are of course an an elected body , who will if they have views on this subject no doubt have formal minutes which will set it out one way or the other . |
| 10 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 11 | And go , I set it up all working and there 's fuck oh ho ! |
| 12 | Hennessy brought a chair of his own and set it down some distance away . |
| 13 | For God 's sake , what is it I have got from him , that it sets me so high ? |
| 14 | Meanwhile the weather had not improved at all , setting me back several days . |
| 15 | Too soothing , setting you too much at your ease . |
| 16 | His father 's library was open to him and we are told that his ‘ father set him very early to learn portions of the works of the best English poets by heart , so that at a very early age he could repeat large portions of Shakespeare , Milton , and Spenser ’ . |
| 17 | Raynor , more closely attuned to her now than he would have believed possible , felt the strength and the sudden arrogance and the automatic shouldering of a burden , and knew that it was this quality , this mastery , that set her so much apart . |