Example sentences of "set down [prep] a " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Is erm , set down as a related document form there or ?
2	To his annoyance he found that the Treasurer 's office was now completely empty except for the four telephones set down in a row on the bare boards of the floor .
3	But the success of the organisation lay in the men who ran it as much as in the formal orders ( set down in a minute of July 1942 ) .
4	we set down in a passing-place and basked
5	The sound of a glass being set down on a table , then a door closing .
6	For , all in the instant of his book and glass being set down on a nearby table ‘ You 're afraid of me , Fabia ? ’ he demanded to know in a straightforward , no nonsense manner .
7	If she will take you , you will be set down in a bare heath , on a great stone , which is made of granite and is the gate to your adventure , though it will seem to have been fixed and unmoving since the making of the world .
8	Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand .
9	Since the mere association of words will not unambiguously point to meaning , the words need to be set down in a particular arrangement .
10	The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own , and the curtains drawn aside .
11	She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine .
12	She was hazily aware of being set down in a chair , then her head was pushed none too gently between her knees .
13	Gourlay opened the second set with a double , but two ends later found himself two sets down after a maximum 4 and a 3 gave Corsie the set 7-2 .
14	In the books they write , music is heard in country places — trumpets , fiddles , the cimbalom — and love shows its face in country hotels , pleasant places , set down beside a stretch of water .

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