Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 2 | Junker resistance to the abolition of serfdom , their mistrust of the new powers of industry and their blank incomprehension when faced with the idea that their estates could be run more profitably on other than feudal lines set them on a course that was to have a profound impact on German history . |
| 3 | When the cream has gone fill them with daffodils , set them on a table centre of tawny orange silk with a bordering of asparagus fern . |
| 4 | With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory . |
| 5 | As Maggie took the things from the tray and set them on the table she said , ‘ I know what you 're thinking : we 're slightly barmy . ’ |
| 6 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 7 | " Put two quarts of gooseberries into about a quart of water , and set them on the fire . |
| 8 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 9 | Fru Blicher had organised eighty chairs from a nearby school and set them in a semi-circle round the platform . |
| 10 | He baited his baskets and set them in the water , he was so cunning ! |
| 11 | Set them in the wall . |
| 12 | Just choose the correct printer , and set it as the default printer from the menu option and you , your Star printer , and Windows will all be best of friends . |
| 13 | She filled the big , black kettle and set it over the burner . |
| 14 | She put his tea down on the table in the lounge , sought out the Scotch and set it beside the cup . |
| 15 | Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses of beautiful women of antiquity , and how would they be troubled by this beauty , into which the soul with all its maladies has passed ! |
| 16 | You set it on the way back . ’ |
| 17 | He filled the kettle carefully and set it on the gas stove but in spite of his care he slopped water . |
| 18 | She grunted assent , and he filled the coffee percolator , set it on the stove and then rooted around in the refrigerator for the ketchup , while he wondered how to approach the subject of his going to New York . |
| 19 | Turning away from him , she filled the kettle and set it on the stove . |
| 20 | Davide , called by his father to the piano , took up a sheet and set it on the mahogany lyre stand . |
| 21 | He took her glass from her and set it on the top of the bookshelves , then he said softly , ‘ You look somehow — different . ’ |
| 22 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 23 | Lavender filled it half-full of water and carried it , together with a glass , into the classroom and set it on the teacher 's table . |
| 24 | Though he 'd never used it , the Bowl was reputedly the most accurate prophetic tool known in the worlds , and now — sitting amid his treasures , with a sense growing in him that events on Earth in the last few days were leading to some matter of moment — he brought the Bowl down from its place on the highest shelf , unwrapped it , and set it on the table . |
| 25 | She drank from her cup , then set it on the table . |
| 26 | Travis took the mug and set it on the table . |
| 27 | If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom . |
| 28 | And the glistening ruby that means longing — set it in the crystal frame . |
| 29 | So it was that the eight of us ended up , kit gleaming in the spring sunshine , awaiting the arrival of the man who would diagnose our ills , administer a local anaesthetic and set us on the road to perfect health . |