Example sentences of "set it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She filled the big , black kettle and set it over the burner .
3 She put his tea down on the table in the lounge , sought out the Scotch and set it beside the cup .
4 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 !
5 You set it on the way back . ’
6 He filled the kettle carefully and set it on the gas stove but in spite of his care he slopped water .
7 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 .
8 Turning away from him , she filled the kettle and set it on the stove .
9 Davide , called by his father to the piano , took up a sheet and set it on the mahogany lyre stand .
10 He took her glass from her and set it on the top of the bookshelves , then he said softly , ‘ You look somehow — different . ’
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 She drank from her cup , then set it on the table .
15 Travis took the mug and set it on the table .
16 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 .
17 And the glistening ruby that means longing — set it in the crystal frame .
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