Example sentences of "set foot on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By then all they wanted to do was set foot on dry land . |
| 4 | It was ironic , as it must be presumed that he had never set foot on French soil . |
| 5 | Having hardly set foot on American soil , and with out a second thought , he boarded the next liner and sailed back . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Setting foot on Indian soil at the age of 32 , William Carey never again left . |