Example sentences of "set [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |
| 2 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 3 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 4 | The Phoenix King issued an edict forbidding them to set foot on Ulthuan . |
| 5 | Bel-Hathor issues his interdict forbidding humans to set foot on Ulthuan . |
| 6 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 7 | Could n't the new incentive of a £5,000 reward act as a trigger for the vital information detectives need to set justice on its way ? |
| 8 | Rosslyn Park , for example , are first in line to experience the probable backlash of that defeat when they set foot on the Recreation Ground this afternoon . |
| 9 | In Adonis Attis Osiris , Frazer saw the goddess Mefitis as personifying ‘ mephitic vapours ’ and described her temple ‘ where the exhalations … were of so deadly a character that all who set foot on the spot died ’ . |
| 10 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 11 | When the adventurers set foot on the stairs , each is allowed a WP test ( Magic Sense +10 ) to sense that some form of magical trap exists . |
| 12 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 13 | On 28 June 1930 in the East India Docks I climbed the gangway of the Sorrento and set foot on her rusty iron deck . |
| 14 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 15 | In fact , my little castaway , she never set foot on the island at all — would n't come near the place . ’ |
| 16 | And dry it would have been if the heavens had n't opened the moment the ship docked and the troops set foot on French soil . |
| 17 | Michael at Cat 's Whiskers set hair on rollers then loosened the curls into ringlets |
| 18 | The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops . |
| 19 | Set card on row 1 |
| 20 | Set card on row 2 |
| 21 | In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general . |
| 22 | Set model on solid surface and measure height of each blade In turn without moving model . |
| 23 | He ran up the ramp , the sergeant liftmaster activating the hydraulics even before he had set loot on it . |
| 24 | It was a just over a week since she had first set foot on the Dorset coast path . |
| 25 | It was ironic , as it must be presumed that he had never set foot on French soil . |
| 26 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ What she did n't say and was too embarrassed to talk about was an uncanny feeling that she had only recently become aware of , but now realised had been growing in her ever since she had set foot on Titron . |
| 28 | I 've been a ZZAP ! fan since Issue 68 , and I 'd like to say it 's the most amazing thing that has set foot on earth . |
| 29 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 30 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |