Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] set [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If other Victorian novelists do not set fire to their great houses with as much frequency as Dickens , they tend in other ways to undermine them , suggesting that they too perceive them , not merely as fabrics , but as expressions of an outmoded system . |
| 2 | I must say I was quite surpri I 've never set foot in the place before since that time we went down before it was open . |
| 3 | ‘ When the proposals failed , I gave up on the profession and have not set foot in the Institute since , but it is characteristic of Bill 's commitment that he has carried on regardless . ’ |
| 4 | They have n't set fire to the furniture yet . ’ |
| 5 | You have n't set fire to nothing , have you ? ’ |
| 6 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 7 | I have never set foot in it . |