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As usual, these sorts of fluctuations set the market in a whirl, with mixed reactions to the improvement in the pound's value.
Trenchant is just starting a programme of sea trials following a ground-breaking refit which has set the standard for other submarines.
The truth turned out to be a little different, but almost nobody who had reported the case actually set the record straight.
Wary of the way Hollywood might handle the story, he set out to create his own version and set the record straight.
Stylistically, it really set the tone for all the grainy filmed reconstructions of events we see in documentaries all the time nowadays.
But City had set the tempo and Jacobs waltzed his way around Antony Kay only to see Windass put the header in the TL Dallas Stand.
As more jagged ribbons of lightening above set the sky alight, Ely swore aloud as he was blinded.
Besides being a phenomenal success that set the cash registers ringing, it won critical acclaim too.
The preference had been for a ready-made building rather than a green-field site that could have set the operation back a number of years.
This unexpected resurgence of popular radicalism set the scene for the century of upheaval that would follow.
She set the bowl of fruit on the desk and resumed her seat, frowning once again at the sheet of paper in front of her.
I suppose that's about where you want to end up with these guys, the half of them who are jokers, and the other half who set the jokers up.
The child should set the alarm before bed and reset the alarm if it goes off.
We depend on those things, and they set the benchmark for how well we live in this country.
Solberg set the pace for the first two days of the rally, winning five stages in a row.
The supercomputing crowd tends to set the pace for technology adoption across the server market.
He whapped Katheryn playfully, set the folded blanket on the cot and continued.
He pushed debris and whatnot off of the couch, lay his jacket down, and then set the girl atop it.
Gentlemen, just a second, let me just set the record straight here and I think we can reach agreement.
Several practice sessions will run in advance of two qualifying sessions to set the grid for the first two races.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Layton made no reply, but began to set the chessmen upon the board at random.
The thought set the geyser of his rage roaring and spouting in the face of heaven.
Raffles went and wound up the throwing apparatus, and set the clay pigeon on the rest.
Ewell fidgeted, then, as the other sucked on, determined to set the ball rolling.
Dismounting the Standish, he lugged it back up to the main saloon, replaced it in its safe and again set the combination lock.
What she read in the man's eyes set the woman's heart to beating with a new delight.
A spark could ignite it and set the globe on fire like it was a brandied Christmas pudding.
Upon this last they set the equally brilliant helmet, adorned with semiprecious stones.
The sailors set the great lateen sails of the felucca, which bellied out like things leaping into life.
A circle of brushwood is then lighted, in the centre of which is set the pie.
The crwth, crowd, crouth did not undergo this third transition even when the bow was used to set the strings in vibration.
The stained glass was made from my own drawings, and I personally set the bullseye lens in its appointed place.
He set the example by putting one on like a baldric, Mark doing the same with the other.
For it was as a Knight of the Garter that he had set the perfect seal on his dandyism.
And Laura set the dashy little thing with its head on one side, and held it up coquettishly.
We will set the burglar alarm wires, which I have neglected for some time, as I fancied everything would be secure here.
In due time they reach, say the Isle of Wight, where they set the pencil of the seismometer at work.
When their other tasks were done, Maggie and Elvira were deputed to set the table.
I bet this bunch of hens on Acorn Island will holler for us roosters before we set the distress signal for them.
He got him to his feet, and bringing the destrier to his master, set the knight thereon.
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