Example sentences of "set [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 6 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 7 | In fact , my little castaway , she never set foot on the island at all — would n't come near the place . ’ |
| 8 | The poster scheme also provides an excellent opportunity to expose large numbers of the population , who rarely or never set foot within a gallery , to contemporary art . |
| 9 | The two men put down their pens and stared at her ; no woman ever set foot within the dockyard gates . |
| 10 | They have no respect for non-Jewish culture and would be only too happy if Jews never set foot in a university . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ To those of you who have eyes to see and ears to hear the message from Damien in this coffin through his mother : never , never set foot in a stolen car again , ’ Fr Kelly told mourners at St Patrick 's Church , Donegall Street . |
| 12 | Let me make it quite plain , if Mike Channon ever set foot in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three he would not go anywhere but Athletico , even if I had to sell my house and body to keep him here . |
| 13 | But the shows triumph has been its appeal not just to the unaddressed , naff masses , but also to a fashionable audience of discerning clubbers who never set foot in the kind of clubs the programme broadcasts from , and to the extremist yuppie subgroup that reads both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Sport . |
| 14 | Binnerton manor obviously had a large number of freeholders , including some members of the nobility and gentry who probably never set foot in the place let alone attended the manorial court . |
| 15 | Having collected his swimmer in phase one or two , the paddler now set course for the submarine rendezvous , beaming the infra-red light seawards in phase three and then , in phase four shorewards when the submarine might have passed inshore of the canoe . |
| 16 | Then , confident that we had n't missed many , we set course for the larger island of Whalsay . |
| 17 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 18 | Set light to a car with a gang of others . |
| 19 | Before Adam could react with his weapons , the passenger in the BMW , a young blond skinhead , set light to a glass bottle half-filled with petrol with a piece of rag stuffed in the top , and hurled the Molotov cocktail through Billie 's open window into the Quattro . |
| 20 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 21 | Flames flicker as they set light to the rubbish — not to reduce it to ashes but to see what is worth collecting . |
| 22 | As the train was pulling into the station at Shkodër some of the rioters set light to the last two carriages ; at least two passengers were burned to death . |
| 23 | Craig Simpson , 21 , set light to the front door of the house in Tower Green , Middlesbrough , and also set a fire in the dustbin at the back door of the house . |
| 24 | Eventually all is set for Culkin , now holed up in his uncle 's deserted townhouse , to wire the rooms , set traps on the stairs , gather inflammable materials and treat Pesci and Stern to a far more violent onslaught than was executed in Home Alone 1 . |
| 25 | ‘ THIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons finally set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains rising in fairyland fantasy before the rising sun . |
| 26 | John Samuel at Park City , Utah , on the opening races of the new season Cannons put smile on Willi 's Face ‘ T HIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains . |
| 27 | ‘ Never set eyes on the bugger , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant . |
| 29 | In an agricultural society poor soil conditions , often the consequence of centuries of abusive cultivation , together with the amount and nature of the rainfall , set bounds to the possibilities of progress . |
| 30 | Talented Hughes and ex-North Wales county team member Preston from Prestatyn were too strong for professional coach Arwyn Pierce of Ruthin and his young partner Danielle Morris Jones of Rhyl , running out straight set winners at a cost of six games . |