Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would not leave it to the discretion of the doctors but , acting on the best medical advice , set down what drugs could be prescribed and those that could not . |
| 2 | They often set down what the job means and how things are done . |
| 3 | At last she set down her cup and looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall . |
| 4 | ‘ Quite clearly money well spent , ’ Miss Cress smiled , a sharp-eyed smile , and set down her tea-cup . |
| 5 | Ruth set down her cup and saucer by the stopped golden clock . |
| 6 | Melissa set down her empty cup and began fiddling with her necklace . |
| 7 | As she set down her cup , startling the sparrows , she thought she might even pack his belongings . |
| 8 | Polly set down her knife and fork , unable to face another mouthful . |
| 9 | Phyllis set down her cup . |
| 10 | For the second time , Alexandra set down her basket and put her hand on the door handle . |
| 11 | Dropping to her knees , as if she could no longer stand on her trembling legs , and heedless of the new peach gown and the pretty fawn pelisse she had bought that covered it , Theda set down her candle on the floor with quivering fingers , and covered her face with her hands . |
| 12 | As I shakily set down my glass , with a new attack of the clammy sweats seeping into my shirt , things grew more terrifying . |
| 13 | In dismay he put aside his tools and set down his reaction to the disaster on paper . |
| 14 | He set down his glass and hugged her . |
| 15 | That evening Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Clarke set down his thoughts in brief notes on raiding parties carried by ship to the French coast and drawn from a special force . |
| 16 | The system of zoogeographical regions , now accepted by zoologists throughout the world , was the work of two great Victorian naturalists , Dr P. L. Sclater , who put forward his theories in 1858 , and Alfred Russel Wallace , who set down his conclusions in a classic book eighteen years later . |
| 17 | Craig set down his glass and taking up the papers moved swiftly across the room . |
| 18 | The Doctor set down his beaker . |
| 19 | Harris set down his empty beer mug , took out a handkerchief and wiped foam from his mouth . |
| 20 | She set down his drink so hard that it sloshed out of the glass . |
| 21 | She and Annie had made the gowns and , although they were of good strong material , befitting the bride 's station and life-style , Lydia 's chestnut-coloured material brought a touch of colour to her normally sallow cheeks , while Martha 's deep maroon set off her fair colouring . |
| 22 | Mrs Porter came in , eyeing the slim young woman in the cream and sky-blue sundress that set off her sun-blonde hair and fair colouring . |
| 23 | She had brought along her companion , Norton , a thin , harassed-looking woman , whose drab grey attire set off her employer 's brilliance . |
| 24 | But she fell in love with a gown set low over the bosom , and unadorned , but for a ribbon or two , in a soft peach that set off her copper tresses . |
| 25 | And I wonder if anybody can match that , I do n't mean match that , when she nearly set off her nightdress on fire |
| 26 | Well they set off they towed it up and then they had at least six six of them Burn Transit lorries all towing it up . |
| 27 | It , just before we set off they came round in the car and they had a loaf for me . |
| 28 | They let the people in you know ooh my by time we set off I er it were like Christmas . |
| 29 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 30 | Each time the mother tried to contact the girl 's father by phone she got some evasive reply from premises she thought he might have reached — either he had left the day before , or was busy with the accountant , so the poor woman set off herself to track him down . |