Example sentences of "setting [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't live my life looking up to other people , setting my life on the example of others , yeah fair enough |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH Ville de Paris and Nippon have been eliminated after the final races of the America 's Cup challengers ' semi-finals , they are both already setting their sights on the 1995 Cup . |
| 3 | Setting her briefcase on a nearby table , she approached the bed . |
| 4 | His wife , who had miscarried he was no longer sure how many times , had stayed in bed two or three weeks without setting her foot to the floor on every occasion , and had then spent a week or so more , he remembered , on a sofa in the drawing-room looking not merely untouchable but as if even a heavy footstep across the hall might shatter her into pieces like spun glass . |
| 5 | Evelyn quickened her step , setting her face against the slanting rain . |
| 6 | Huge pages underlined the scarceness of resources , and hot metal setting its distance from the offset litho of It , let alone the colour and verve of Oz . |
| 7 | Always more interested in obtaining results than in political theorizing , the new Home Secretary , in his first Cabinet post ( one that he coveted ) lost no time in setting his stamp on a Department that had become accident prone . |
| 8 | Ken Stevens sipped his pint , then , setting his glass on the table , looked indignantly from his wife to his daughters . |
| 9 | By setting his move in the Thirties , and by turning that ambiguously seductive decade into what might be called a laide époque , Visconti discovered a necessary , hitherto unremarked fact about movie nostalgia : that it functions best when directly linked either to the history of the cinema ( as in The Damned , Helmut Berger 's Dietrich impersonation ) or history in the cinema ( newsreel footage , for example ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Give me a few moments , ’ said Pumlumon , setting his features in a frown of concentration and Fenella looked at Caspar with a have-we-any-choice expression and then , taking a deep breath , walked across to the group of giants by the fire . |
| 11 | Setting his face towards the barrow , which was still perhaps half a mile away in dramatic relief against the angry sky , he had the feeling that he was bring followed ; that wherever he went , and no matter how fast he covered the ground , his every move was shadowed . |
| 12 | AFTER spending all his working life in the pottery industry , a familiar figure at Barlaston is setting his sights on a new ‘ career ’ which will enable him to explore scenic routes around the world . |
| 13 | HAVING spent all his working life in the pottery industry , a Wedgwood executive is setting his sights on a new ‘ career ’ that will take him and his wife exploring the scenic routes , cities and towns of Britain , America , Canada and Europe . |
| 14 | Setting his sights on the lucrative prizes up for grabs in the Daily Mirror/Manx Airlines sponsored event is classy Kenyan Jimmy Muindi , the current World Junior steeplechase champion . |
| 15 | At this stage , while setting your goals for the whole dieting period , use another graph to plot out your weight at the end of each month . |
| 16 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 17 | Having set our investment in bricks and mortar , we 're now setting our sights on the future . |