Example sentences of "set before [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the auberge , they set before me a beautiful soup with dumplings in it , followed by a great white sausage on a small alp of potato and onion-rings . |
| 2 | In 1910 , when the Golden Jubilee of Thomas Street was being celebrated , the Quarterly Board looked at all the work of God on the Circuit and among other things they recorded their feeling that ‘ in Edenderry there is set before us an open door and we are determined to enter in . ’ |
| 3 | You see , Christmas is linked with the season of Advent — the season of hope which sets before us the hope of his coming to restore all things and bring all things to a glorious conclusion . |
| 4 | In this elegant , compassionate , deeply researched book , the tremendously caring Geoffrey Moorhouse sets before us the facts and figures , the jingoism , pride , pain , as well as the hideous smugness , the cock-ups , the arrogance , and the disasters made by ‘ those who know better ’ . |
| 5 | Her members have to cope with varying degrees of immobility — one lady has an artificial — but they are enthusiastic and even ambitious , setting before themselves the movements of Torvill and Dean as an ideal to follow . |