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

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1 Left alone with Carrie , Joe sat watching her pour the boiling water into the earthenware teapot , and after bringing it to the table and setting it on a stand , she smiled at him and said softly , ‘ How are you ? ’
2 Lewis leaned back in his chair as his mother came forward with the teapot , setting it on the china stand .
3 Setting it on the saloon table , and inhaling the delicious combination of smells , Polly went up the companionway ladder to call Nathan .
4 He pulled the drawer free and carried it outside for her , setting it on the desk .
5 For the next year , he says , his life will be all Aspects of Love — setting it on the rails along which previous vehicles have coasted with profitable ease — London , New York , Australia , Vienna , Hungary , Tokyo .
6 And he rattled a cornflake packet before setting it on the table nearest the door .
7 We were very open to a range of ideas from big to little ; the mother of a mentally-handicapped child wrote in wanting to do something for mentally-handicapped children , and she had got an idea about setting it in the production office of a children 's comic .
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