Example sentences of "and sets [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a fire starts in a room ( and most hotel fires do ) , the smoke leaks through the door , rises to the ceiling and sets off the alarm . |
| 2 | Go for well-designed china that delights the eye and sets off the food . |
| 3 | In his manic enthusiasm he arrests an innocent man , the bear-like Dan Maguire , and sets about framing him . |
| 4 | This month Ken takes the plunge and sets about the daunting task of buying a new machine . |
| 5 | He apologises for the mess and sets to work clearing books and bottles and brochures off the one cracked settee for us to sit on . |
| 6 | That year the twenty-five-year-old Cocteau was working on the book of Parade , Diaghilev 's controversial new ballet which was to express the new spirit in the arts , with music by Satie and Cubist costumes and sets by Picasso . |
| 7 | For the special Christmas episode , ‘ The Feast of Steven ’ , an episode never screened abroad , Camfield wanted to use the main actors and sets from the popular Z Cars series ( including Brian Blessed , Colin Welland and James Ellis ) in cameo appearances . |
| 8 | We shall have to do three old ones from the last couple of years and get the costumes and sets from Vienna as usual . |
| 9 | Because of the direction in which the Earth revolves , the sun always rises in the east and sets in the west . |
| 10 | The effect is on the autonomic or unconscious nervous system and sets in motion a process which influences the brain to respond in a high degree to the desires of the heart . |