Example sentences of "set [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we 'd set foot over the doorstep Mum had started . |
| 2 | An even lower profile is provided by teachers who may not set foot in the classroom at all but who may spend considerable periods of time in discussion with colleagues on ways in which the curriculum can be made more accessible to all children in the class , including the least able . |
| 3 | It was as if hammers had hit us ; without a word we left , and we did not set foot in the house for many months , until Valeria announced that all was forgiven . |
| 4 | It is a magic one , though only modestly so : ‘ He that blows it at need shall set fear in the hearts of his enemies and joy in the hearts of his friends , and they shall hear him and come to him . ’ |
| 5 | He says he realised something terrible was going to happen , but he never thought that they would actually set light to the car . |
| 6 | If you smoke up here , you 'll set –re to the house . ’ |
| 7 | We 'll set fire to the rocks up here and create a huge explosion . |