Example sentences of "set foot [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 2 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 5 | In fact , my little castaway , she never set foot on the island at all — would n't come near the place . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two men put down their pens and stared at her ; no woman ever set foot within the dockyard gates . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |