21.   It had little bearing early in the game, when Martinez, throwing almost exclusively fastballs, set down the first nine Yankees, fanning six.

22.   It never really occurred to most of the people in the book that someone would really set down the conversations they had in business meetings.

23.   Last month Kennedy took to the floor of the Senate for a speech setting down markers on what a tobacco settlement ought to include.

24.   Massachusetts, like many other states, has already passed a law setting down strict rules for how nurses may delegate the role of giving medication.

25.   Ms. Campbell paused as the waitress set down a plate of shrimp scampi.

26.   Ms. Ernaux tells us the basics in a short forward, before she sets down the notes she took as she cared for her mother in her final years.

27.   Now I have the personal and journalistic excuse to set it down one more time.

28.   Organizing a pictorial tune is a matter of setting down note tiles and controlling the way the bugz move across them.

29.   Others would set down criteria for hiring and firing doctors or lengths of stay for surgery on specific body parts.

30.   Racing against time, the pope is setting down footprints all across the former Soviet empire that he hopes a successor will not dare ignore.