Sentence examples for set it before from inspiring English sources

She brought out the absolute of narcissus and set it before him.

That doesn't mean we can't – when we staged Much Ado About Nothing in 1998, we set it before the first world war, with Edwardian costumes and military uniforms.

Another assistant carried a steaming dish to the cloth-covered table in a sunlit corner of the studio, then set it before Jason and his camera, which was ready and waiting on its tripod.

The bartender was pointing at the empty bottle, and so Marciano repeated his phrase, "Please, a beer," and the heavy man bent to the cooler, extracted a fresh Corona, snapped off the cap, and set it before him.

'I obviously had to set it before the law on abortion changed in 1967,' he says, 'and I settled on 1950 because the war was still fresh in the collective memory, but the Fifties as we have come to know them hadn't really started yet.

The play, which takes place mainly in a Brooklyn brownstone in 2007 ("I wanted to set it before this last summer and the election," Mr. Kushner said), tells the story of the Italian-American Marcantonio family (for which Mr. Kushner has created an elaborate family tree extending back to the 1830s and Italy).

Before being elected a senator from Massachusetts, Warren helped design the agency and set it up before Cordray was confirmed as its first director.

There's a "framing shot" of a vase of red roses so you can set it up before watching something.

"Deceptive Practice," which was directed by Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein, doesn't pull back the curtain on a wizard who would probably set it afire before it began to part.

When he goes to sleep, set your alarm for 2-3 hours later (try to set it for before he'll need a potty break).

Use the move tool to move it, then transform it again to set it perfectly before the face of the first photo (Steve Jobs).