Example sentences of "set it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Hankins shows you how to set it to best advantage . |
| 2 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 3 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 4 | I can not recall whether it was a Labour Government who set it at that figure . |
| 5 | Back in the hall he pushed the thermostat up to seventy-five degrees ; he doubted if his mother had ever set it above sixty . |
| 6 | Now , Taheb had set it with large earthenware tubs , from which a profusion of tall dark-green plants grew . |
| 7 | You 've set it for that rough track . ’ |
| 8 | She has given this rich stone a 1990s look by setting it in delicate modern mounts for necklaces , earrings ( above ) , and rings . |
| 9 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |