Example sentences of "set [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door , as a plague of field-mice infested the estate . |
| 2 | She could n't eat , could n't concentrate on her work , could n't do anything except wander round and round the drawing-room , frightened to set foot outside the door in case she bumped straight into Julius . |
| 3 | ‘ That I was n't meant to set foot outside the house and grounds ? ’ |
| 4 | Deacon Palmer was a golf professional-cum-greenkeeper at Latrobe , near Pittsburgh , and he would never presume to set foot inside the clubhouse unless specifically invited by a member . |
| 5 | " They are good women " , Martha said , " but I 'm not going to set foot in the place while that 's going on . |
| 6 | To set light to the straw the team were using a mixture of petrol and spirits . |
| 7 | They were the ones nipping in and out of the general ruck , tapping ankles , trying to spray-paint out the windows and one of them even trying to set fire to a bunch of leaflets stuffed through Naamen 's letter-box . |
| 8 | Some of the more irresponsible youths had tried to set fire to the building but somehow it did not catch and went out much to their disappointment ! |
| 9 | THE owner of a derelict boarding house was accused yesterday of killing a friend who had allegedly helped him to set fire to the building in an ‘ insurance job ’ . |
| 10 | To see him in this way has made it possible — has made it logical and rational — to set fire to the night skies of Iraq . |
| 11 | ‘ He clearly knew he was going to set fire to the flat . |
| 12 | By the time the work had finished two internal walls had been completely destroyed and Crook took the decision to set fire to the flat in the hope Langbaurgh Council , which owns the block , might rehouse him . |
| 13 | Surely no one would be so wicked as to set fire to the place ? ’ |
| 14 | He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling . |
| 15 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 16 | Her duty is like the duty not to set fire to the forest which entails the duty to put out any fire one started . |
| 17 | He ca n't understand why anyone would want to set fire to the garage and cars . |
| 18 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 19 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 20 | In Adonis Attis Osiris , Frazer saw the goddess Mefitis as personifying ‘ mephitic vapours ’ and described her temple ‘ where the exhalations … were of so deadly a character that all who set foot on the spot died ’ . |
| 21 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |
| 22 | In fact , my little castaway , she never set foot on the island at all — would n't come near the place . ’ |
| 23 | Rosslyn Park , for example , are first in line to experience the probable backlash of that defeat when they set foot on the Recreation Ground this afternoon . |
| 24 | The poster scheme also provides an excellent opportunity to expose large numbers of the population , who rarely or never set foot within a gallery , to contemporary art . |
| 25 | The two men put down their pens and stared at her ; no woman ever set foot within the dockyard gates . |
| 26 | They have no respect for non-Jewish culture and would be only too happy if Jews never set foot in a university . ’ |
| 27 | But the shows triumph has been its appeal not just to the unaddressed , naff masses , but also to a fashionable audience of discerning clubbers who never set foot in the kind of clubs the programme broadcasts from , and to the extremist yuppie subgroup that reads both the Sunday Times and the Sunday Sport . |
| 28 | Binnerton manor obviously had a large number of freeholders , including some members of the nobility and gentry who probably never set foot in the place let alone attended the manorial court . |
| 29 | Having collected his swimmer in phase one or two , the paddler now set course for the submarine rendezvous , beaming the infra-red light seawards in phase three and then , in phase four shorewards when the submarine might have passed inshore of the canoe . |
| 30 | Before we 'd set foot over the doorstep Mum had started . |