Example sentences of "set [noun] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford English provides all the materials needed to set children on the right track . |
| 2 | He came home from the July meeting at Newmarket in 1904 and set men on the following week . |
| 3 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 4 | Just hours earlier she had set eyes on the pretty two-year-old and sister Anna-Camilla , seven , for the first time . |
| 5 | US President George Bush on July 31 , 1989 , vetoed a bill passed by Congress which would have set restrictions on the joint development of the FSX fighter , Japan 's next generation of attack aircraft [ see p. 36619 ; 36651 ] , on the grounds that joint development would have enabled the Japanese to overtake US technological superiority in aerospace and would have provided the means whereby Japan could develop its own commercial aircraft . |
| 6 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |