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Example sentences for "set them"

  • Having caused those whom he had made prisoners to be brought before him, with amiable and kindly expressions he set them at liberty, and made Antonio Adimari a knight, although quite against his will.

  • The Florentines conjectured their design was to set them at enmity with the Venetians, not so much for the sake of gaining their friendship as to be able the more easily to injure them.

  • I set them first to washing dishes, and had a struggle of a week or so's duration in trying to adjust Tomas's conception of that labor to my own.

  • They were at first minded to set them down in the rain, but thought better of it, and carried them into my lower hall.

  • I had no time, however, to speculate on its constituent elements, because my attention was attracted by the cloth with which the boy was polishing off dishes before he set them down.

  • The ends of A, B, D would require dotted circles to set them by.

  • How many of our most cherished beliefs are like those drinking-glasses of the ancient pattern, that serve us well so long as we keep them in our hand, but spill all if we attempt to set them down!

  • He entered the blazing saloon with the unfailing smile upon his lips, to which he set them as he set his watch to a particular hour and minute.

  • He applied to these people, and offered a reward sufficient to set them at work to capture some of these animals, if such a thing were possible.

  • He had passed through the sympathetic and emotional stages in his new experience, and had arrived at the philosophical and practical state, which takes things coolly, and goes to work to set them right.

  • Fathers of families in moderate circumstances will find it profitable to their children, and an economical mode of instruction, to set them to revising and amending this boy's exercise.

  • Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left.

  • And he set them in the sides of the ephod, for a memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth.

  • And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

  • Hers were in a nice little box, just like the inkstand on the outside; and there was a place to light the matches, and a place to set them in while they are burning.

  • Now you've done — shall I set them on the table?

  • We might now, indeed, set them free, for the cruiser is gone, but I still have good reason for wishing to take them with me.

  • Here they remained for a week, and then effected a bargain with the captain of a fishing lugger to set them on shore in France.

  • Huske at once got his men under arms, but he had no authority, in the absence of Hawley, to set them in motion.

  • The general gave the order to set them free, and at the same time sent word to Colonel Billet to prepare against the insurrection.

  • It was necessary to set them right at once.

  • At nine o'clock in the morning they had not yet fired; after the first discharge the recoil overthrew the carriages, and much time was required to set them up again.

  • It always lamented that things were at a stand-still, but did not know how to set them going.

  • So he determined to set them a task to perform, and whichever should be the most successful was to have the kingdom as his reward.

  • When the Jackal had gathered together all the sticks he could find and put them round the mouth of his den, he set them on fire and pushed them as far into it as possible.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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