Example sentences of "set foot [prep] [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 | ‘ In other words , ’ said Julius in a tight voice , ‘ although this is my house , you do n't want me to set foot in that room . ’ |
| 3 | This is not so easy of course , because some schools take a negative view of pregnant schoolgirls and school-age mothers , and also girls themselves may be extremely loathe to set foot in any school again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ If she ever set foot in this house , I 'd walk out of it , ’ Mary continued . |
| 6 | The moment I set foot in this house , my world turned upside down . |
| 7 | Something inside Merrill protested at the lie , but she went on stonily , ‘ I think I had your measure before I ever set foot in these offices . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , a lot of people who have dogs suitable for work with mentally ill people wo n't themselves set foot inside such hospitals . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll never set foot in this bloody flat again . ’ |
| 10 | By then all they wanted to do was set foot on dry land . |
| 11 | It was ironic , as it must be presumed that he had never set foot on French soil . |
| 12 | Having hardly set foot on American soil , and with out a second thought , he boarded the next liner and sailed back . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I should n't have set foot near this rotten mess , ’ he wrote in the diary . |
| 15 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 16 | So far ‘ King James III and VIII ’ , for whom all this sacrifice was being made , had not yet set foot in either of his kingdoms . |
| 17 | In fact , when he does eventually get out of gaol I intend to make sure he never again sets foot on any boat or property owned by my companies . ’ |
| 18 | He 's holding his hand out to me , yelling at me , but I 'm stuck there , terrified , screaming , and I do n't know what to do , ca n't think what to do , even while he 's yelling at me to help him , come out to him , get a branch , but I 'm petrified at the thought of setting foot on that white , treacherous surface and I ca n't imagine finding a branch , ca n't think what to do as I look one way towards the tall trees above the hidden gorge and the other along the shore of the loch towards the boat-house but there are no branches , there 's only snow everywhere , and then Andy stops struggling and slips under the whiteness . |
| 19 | Setting foot on Indian soil at the age of 32 , William Carey never again left . |
| 20 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you I 'm not setting foot inside that house ? ’ |
| 21 | And setting foot inside Tuscan Club apartments you know that you 've made the right choice . |