Example sentences of "[be] [adv] set [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you I 'm not setting foot inside that house ? ’ |
| 2 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 3 | They 'll probably be rather dusty , but they 're quite separate from the house and I can guarantee that Eleanor 's never set foot in them . |
| 4 | Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door , as a plague of field-mice infested the estate . |
| 5 | One method was simply to set fire to a ‘ train' of gunpowder leading to the charge itself , the length of the train corresponding roughly to the time delay before the charge exploded ; a later method involved a kind of fuse of goose quills filled with gunpowder . |