Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] set on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my heart set on a soft-top — preferably a Corvette or a Mustang — and I was n't going to let a spot of bracing weather stand in my way . |
| 2 | But I had my heart set on training a bird . |
| 3 | It was , but he had the sheet in front of him , which had my targets set on it . |
| 4 | ‘ I told her I 'd got my sights set on a high-born heiress and she damned near scratched my eyes out . |
| 5 | She had her heart set on it . ’ |
| 6 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 7 | Barbra , 50 , had her heart set on property in California until she found out it was in the path of the killers which are slowly migrating north from South America where 600 people have been stung to death . |
| 8 | This negative response created great distress to Mrs X as she has her heart set on becoming an embalmer . |
| 9 | Ludus is strictly for women with their eyes set on newsagents ' mid-shelves |
| 10 | Joseph Chamberlain , not Sidney Webb , was the man of her dreams ; but though she has been credited with overcoming romantic desire for the sake of her own independence , it is clear that she desperately wanted him to propose , with her eyes set on his becoming prime minister . |
| 11 | She had her eyes set on a bigger catch than me . ’ |
| 12 | But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 . |
| 13 | But what advice would he pass on to any young person with their sights set on a career in industry ? |
| 14 | Hightown also have their sights set on a double — they have already retained their national indoor title and are intent on securing a place in Europe . |
| 15 | As he points out , the idea ( and a lot of the lines ) for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ were around before Mister C. And The Shamen had long had their sights set on the charts . |
| 16 | Women sailors who might not have their sights set on such lofty goals — or , for that matter , those who have — will be interested in a seminar about women 's sailing to be held in February . |
| 17 | With regret I decided it was too risky for a party of cadets to accompany me — any way the island boys had their sights set on the night life of Fort William . |
| 18 | Almost 800 schools throughout Great Britain and Ireland will have their sights set on a visit to St. Andrews in May for the International final of the Golf Foundation Team Championship for schools . |
| 19 | Traditionally these courses are for the more able , particularly those with their sights set on higher education . |
| 20 | But do the public have their sights set on an Urbanizer ? |
| 21 | Ambitious politicians with their sights set on Downing Street probably make lousy husbands but the likes of Norma Major , Rosemary Lamont somehow cope . |
| 22 | Kylie however has her sights set on another star , and another decade , the 1940s . |
| 23 | After those championships she has her sights set on a more demanding six-day track event in Australia ; she set a world best for 538 miles at the equivalent event in 1990 . |
| 24 | Your uncle must be years and years older than she is , and anyway , I rather gathered she 'd got her sights set on some fellow whose name she would n't tell me . |
| 25 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 26 | Wade , the Commonwealth 800 metres record holder since 1985 , has her sights set on the 1500 metres in the Olympic trials meeting in Birmingham at the end of next month and is ready to test her form against top-class opposition after recovering from a knee injury which threatened to ruin her summer plans . |
| 27 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 28 | But it is looking to grow by 20% each year , its sights set on overtaking arch-rival Computer Associates International Inc — presently three times its size — and taking the number three position by 1997 . |
| 29 | With its sights set on the worldwide Keno Gaming market , AWA Gaming Systems has announced the release of Kenix , a Concurrent Computer Corp , real-time Unix-based version of the computer system driving the popular gambling game Club Keno . |
| 30 | In this tale , two weeds grew on a river bank ; one of them conserved its energy , and grew low and small and brown , with its sights set on a long life , while the other put forth all its strength into growing tall and into colouring itself a beautiful green . |