Example sentences of "was set on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my heart was set on buying a Sierra XR4x4 , £5000 for the Ritchie Motors offering would be sorely tempting . |
| 2 | The Palace of Justice ( a terrible misnomer ) was set on fire by the workers . |
| 3 | Whatever his standing with Catholics ( and for a short time it was high ) , he was set on a collision course with the representatives of traditional unionism and with no representative more so than Ian R. K. Paisley . |
| 4 | A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ . |
| 5 | It was set on the Potomac near Washington D C which , like Malmesbury in our civil war , changed hands several times during the American one . |
| 6 | In the 1980s , this country was set on a course towards industrial efficiency and competitiveness from which the whole of British business will profit once more , when the recession ends . |
| 7 | The tone was set on the first day out of London when Kinnock confided to a class of six-year-olds at Staple Hill primary school in Kingswood , Bristol : ‘ Glenys is a teacher in real life : this is just pretending . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I said that something was set on fire today . ’ |
| 9 | You are telling me that up there on the stone face of Glasgow your soul was set on fire . ’ |
| 10 | Inside , some oil was set on fire and equipment damaged , prompting an argument about nonviolence . |
| 11 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 12 | ‘ My mind ’ , she said ‘ was set on going and I had to go . ’ |
| 13 | A pail of cold water for washing was set on the floor so that performers had to bend over to use it . |
| 14 | Great store was set on the word ‘ training ’ . |
| 15 | There was Lodowyck 's universal language , for instance , in which a sign for a radical ( eg primitive verb , to light ) was set on a musical stave , with signs for augmentation leg that wherewith the thing is acted ) set adjacent to it . |
| 16 | His mind was set on walking down his quarry and had room for nothing else . |
| 17 | This tale of smugglers , murder and romance was set on this piece of coast and many of the places and people from the book have been commemorated in the names of streets and new houses built in the area . |
| 18 | Thacker was set on fire and I 'm not sure what happened to Bradbury . |
| 19 | L2164 was set on fire , having already been damaged during the previous attack on 7th. , and was ultimately sunk after efforts had been made to tow it ashore . |
| 20 | His car was vandalised several times and he was forced to move his business after it was set on fire . |
| 21 | Before being dumped she had been beaten , stripped and then had petrol poured over her body and was set on fire . |
| 22 | One landing craft was set on fire by the bombs that fell short , and many commandos suffered terrible burns from the phosphorous . |
| 23 | The aircraft was set on automatic pilot , leaving Vologsky little more than a passenger for the time being . |
| 24 | For added body , volume and manageability , hair was set on large rollers . |
| 25 | It was set on various slopes . |
| 26 | But Wolfgang was set on going to Munich , armed with two new arias for Aloysia . |
| 27 | The Villa Faalifu was set on the edge of Tala-Tala , and the sight of its opulent exterior almost left me gasping . |
| 28 | He was set on sweepin' me off me feet and doin' me wrong . |
| 29 | A record was set on June 14 , 1944 by not only the 401st Bomb Group , but the whole of the Eighth — they put up 1,525 four-engined bombers and 908 fighter aircraft . |
| 30 | She had a leather suitcase which bore the remains of labels from pre-war Oriental hotels , a hatbox and an immense carpet bag which sighed out little puffs of dust every time it was set on the ground . |