Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] set [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told her I 'd got my sights set on a high-born heiress and she damned near scratched my eyes out . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | She had her eyes set on a bigger catch than me . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But what advice would he pass on to any young person with their sights set on a career in industry ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But do the public have their sights set on an Urbanizer ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then they were formal again , and the company was trooping out of the courtyard and into the cold breeze that billowed down from the distant mountains , their faces set towards the east . |
| 18 | They were drunk , marchers and watchers , exalted out of themselves , their faces set in the rictus of certainty . |
| 19 | His lips set in a snarl . |
| 20 | The Welsh skipper , who underwent surgery on November 10 to cure a hernia problem , has his sights set on a January 4 return against St Helens in an Alliance League fixture . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 22 | Are your eyes set on the right holiday horizon ? |
| 23 | With our feet firmly on the ground and our sights set in the right direction . |
| 24 | If you have your hearts set on a joint endowment , you have two alternatives to cashing in the present one . |