Example sentences of "set [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The SEATO and CENTO pacts brought certain Asian states into pro-Western blocs and set them apart from a larger neutralist group . |
2 | An Ornaments Rubric included in the 1559 Prayer Book ordered the use of vestments and the alb and cope during the communion service ; and the 1559 injunctions required the clergy to wear the surplice during services , as well as their distinctive outdoor dress which set them apart from the laity . |
3 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
4 | I set it carefully on the edition of Sophocles by her bed , intending to retrieve it later . |
5 | The Collector watched with admiration as Lucy 's deft fingers dipped a cartridge up to the shoulder in the grease and then set it neatly in a row with the others she had made . |
6 | Then he lifted his other foot from the ground and set it firmly on the rough stone surface too . |
7 | Cadfael removed a simmering pot from the grid on the side of his brazier , set it aside on the earth floor to cool , and added a couple of turfs to damp down the glow , before straightening his back with some caution , and sitting down beside his friend . |
8 | I could write at greater length about the many qualities which set it way above the average . |