Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , but he had the sheet in front of him , which had my targets set on it . |
| 2 | ‘ I told her I 'd got my sights set on a high-born heiress and she damned near scratched my eyes out . |
| 3 | Rosa took Sabina 's arm and pinched her , hard , her teeth set in fury . |
| 4 | To the left a group of barren islets , suggesting ruins of stone walls , towers and block houses , had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid , so still and stable did it lie below my feet ; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly , without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple ( 2 ) . |
| 5 | Ludus is strictly for women with their eyes set on newsagents ' mid-shelves |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had her eyes set on a bigger catch than me . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A little way above his head , and maybe a few metres back , is a crossed pair of microphones with their elements set at exactly the same distance as his ears . |
| 10 | But what advice would he pass on to any young person with their sights set on a career in industry ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Traditionally these courses are for the more able , particularly those with their sights set on higher education . |
| 17 | But do the public have their sights set on an Urbanizer ? |
| 18 | Ambitious politicians with their sights set on Downing Street probably make lousy husbands but the likes of Norma Major , Rosemary Lamont somehow cope . |
| 19 | With their heads in the sky and their sights set beyond our world , Paperhouse let rip with a slab of space rock that lovingly recreates the cosmic glide of Hawkwind and ‘ Lemmings ’ -era Amon Duul . |
| 20 | Kylie however has her sights set on another star , and another decade , the 1940s . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | With its sights set against the established social and political order , it was further estranged from those newspapers which were able to participate in the reporting and gossip of metropolitan politics . |
| 30 | I can see a situation in which a government made up of aggressive men , their minds set on world domination achieved through war , could seize on your researches to create the most warlike and dangerous nation that has ever existed , which links with this gentleman 's second point . ’ |