Example sentences of "[verb] setting the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text ( The Girl returned from meeting her lover ) with Stenhammar providing a sharp , sweet , highly contrasted little folkloric scena complete with sad introductory Schubertian piano tune . |
| 2 | I would like setting the clock because erm |
| 3 | Emil and his crew , including me , immediately began setting the tables round the passengers for dinner , and were soon serving warm goat 's cheese and radicchio salads followed by circles of rare Chateaubriand with snow peas and matchstick carrots and finally rich orange sorbets smothered in fluffy whipped cream and nuts . |
| 4 | They felt that if it set the wages of very poor people , the next thing it would do would be to start setting the wages of trade unionists . |
| 5 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 6 | Next , switch from auto-focus to manual and practise setting the focus by hand while you watch the effect in the viewfinder . |
| 7 | Mr G Douglas Vaisey also suggests that others should start setting the comps : ‘ I 'm sure we [ we ? ] can do much better than Katie Mallett . ’ |
| 8 | I considered setting the whin bushes alight , but the flowers always looked cheerful when they came out , and the bushes smelled better fresh than burned , so I did n't . |