Example sentences of "[noun] set on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She had her eyes set on a bigger catch than me . ’
2 Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ?
3 Sun sets on a bad week for the BBC
4 EVEN if the sun sets on the ailing TV show Eldorado , it will be good news for star Buki Armstrong , the beauty who plays Gerry in the sangria soap opera .
5 I like the sun setting on a calm sea — ’ His breath hissed through his teeth .
6 As the sun set on a great day , they all made their way home , awaiting the next challenge , so if anybody out there fancies their chances , just ring the Sheffield Pest Control branch .
7 In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green .
8 ‘ I told her I 'd got my sights set on a high-born heiress and she damned near scratched my eyes out .
9 ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series .
10 Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows .
11 Opposite her was a small washstand with a coarse crockery toilet set on a fake marble top .
12 If you have your hearts set on a joint endowment , you have two alternatives to cashing in the present one .
13 Good reads among the new releases include Dick Francis 's COMEBACK ( Pan , £4.99 ) , his 34th racing thriller and as pacy as ever , Danielle Steel 's NO GREATER LOVE ( Corgi , £4.99 ) about the Winfield family whose lives are changed forever the night the Titanic sinks , and Mary Stewart 's STORMY PETREL ( Coronet , £3.99 ) , an atmospheric suspense story set on a Hebridean island .
14 Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 .
15 So if you have got your heart set on a big wedding for the kids or a fast car when you retire , it is worth putting some money away as soon as possible to make sure the clouds of inflation do n't darken your horizon , adds Mr. Pinnell .
16 Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees .
17 A church set on the rocky bluff by the Celtic sect of the Culdees ( ‘ Companions of God ’ ) later submitted to Roman usage and to the transformation of its survivors into Austin canons .
18 Those of classical design and inspiration are infrequent , the most impressive being the tetrastyle prostyle temple set on a high podium and dedicated to Sulis Minerva at Bath .
19 She had polished the glasses and checked there were seven Capstan in the cigarette box set on the low table beside the settee .
20 Voix du Zaïre radio said that enraged students set on the junior education minister , Issalu Isangi , who was badly beaten up .
21 Set into the floor near the entrance is a brass strip running the width of the building to a sundial set on the left wall .
22 Or do you strain every sinew to go for that elusive target set on a small plateau ?
23 I visualized Alison as living in a classic North Oxford mansion set on a bosky avenue amid the murmuring of innumerable dons , so I was surprised to find myself directed up the hill to Headington .
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