Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] set " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , but he had the sheet in front of him , which had my targets set on it . |
| 2 | ‘ I told her I 'd got my sights set on a high-born heiress and she damned near scratched my eyes out . |
| 3 | And so if one of my colleagues sets out on a reform designed to get better value for money and a more effective health service , I 'm going to support him . |
| 4 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 5 | And her values set my teeth on edge — she does n't care about anything . ’ |
| 6 | Rosa took Sabina 's arm and pinched her , hard , her teeth set in fury . |
| 7 | They show in particular how accountants came to feel frustrated by their attempts to set standards within what they saw as an unhelpful legal environment . |
| 8 | The Nayar case also illustrates my earlier comments on the anthropologists ' use of the term " society " and of their attempts to set up typologies of societies of various kinds . |
| 9 | To the left a group of barren islets , suggesting ruins of stone walls , towers and block houses , had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid , so still and stable did it lie below my feet ; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly , without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple ( 2 ) . |
| 10 | They then commandeered a battery operated amplifier and two loudspeakers from the local constituency association , and via the roof of one of their cars set up an excellent PA system . |
| 11 | Her words set up a faint echo among the room 's bare boards , its scabby walls , its uncovered windows . |
| 12 | Like normal people have their computers set up so that they print out . |
| 13 | Since most people have their eyes set side by side , only vertical edges are normally affected by parallax . |
| 14 | Ludus is strictly for women with their eyes set on newsagents ' mid-shelves |
| 15 | In Sections 4.4 and 4.7 we described the way in which schools set about spending their project grants and the key role played by the DCSLs in advising schools on the " weeding " of existing stock , the range of available books and materials , and the mechanics of ordering , cataloguing and shelving their acquisitions . |
| 16 | Her lips set mutinously , she trudged up to the bathroom . |
| 17 | Joseph Chamberlain , not Sidney Webb , was the man of her dreams ; but though she has been credited with overcoming romantic desire for the sake of her own independence , it is clear that she desperately wanted him to propose , with her eyes set on his becoming prime minister . |
| 18 | She had her eyes set on a bigger catch than me . ’ |
| 19 | But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 . |
| 20 | The public dipped deep into their pockets to set free Rocky , a dolphin who had spent all his adult life in captivity . |
| 21 | In order to set a baseline her parents set aside an hour each evening for one week during which they did not tell Lindsay to stop , but recorded the duration of each nose picking session and the frequency . |
| 22 | A little way above his head , and maybe a few metres back , is a crossed pair of microphones with their elements set at exactly the same distance as his ears . |
| 23 | She walked steadily , using all her senses to set her course accurately . |
| 24 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
| 25 | MEANWHILE , THE REST of the Mondays have sorted themselves out , got their sights set and , after the recent carry-ons , are ready for anything . |
| 26 | Only Barrow keep Salford off the bottom of the table , and while the Cumbrians already appear resigned to relegation , the Mancunians , who have spent considerable sums on rugby union internationals such as Adrian Hadley and Peter Williams in recent seasons , had their sights set higher . |
| 27 | But what advice would he pass on to any young person with their sights set on a career in industry ? |
| 28 | Hightown also have their sights set on a double — they have already retained their national indoor title and are intent on securing a place in Europe . |
| 29 | As he points out , the idea ( and a lot of the lines ) for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ were around before Mister C. And The Shamen had long had their sights set on the charts . |
| 30 | With their heads in the sky and their sights set beyond our world , Paperhouse let rip with a slab of space rock that lovingly recreates the cosmic glide of Hawkwind and ‘ Lemmings ’ -era Amon Duul . |