Example sentences of "set he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would provide him with an army to set him on the throne in return for his establishment of a presbyterian form of church government throughout the realm . |
| 2 | Set him on the right path with a good education . |
| 3 | What does Mr Hattersley know about rights that sets him above the wisdom of the ages ? |
| 4 | In the case of the elder James Stephen 's commitment to antislavery , it came after the experience of working in the West Indies as a lawyer , but more precisely , that experience helped direct into antislavery the expression of his gratitude ‘ for the infinite mercy of God ’ in extricating him from the depths of sin brought on by sexual passion and setting him on the path of prosperity and happiness . |
| 5 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 6 | Bashful Barry believes it was his failure with girls as a schoolboy that set him on the path to fame as a film buff . |
| 7 | As the animal jumped into the flames , Buddha manifested himself , snatched the hare from the fire and set him in the Moon . |
| 8 | Cornelius lifted him down and set him upon the copper map . |