Example sentences of "have [adv] set [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board has not set goals for Mr Powell 's tenure , but Dr Murphy hinted at a theme . |
| 2 | He has also set eternity in the hearts of men . |
| 3 | I dealt with the owner personally , and he has n't set foot in the place since the war . |
| 4 | In a piece of fancy footwork of which Gekko would have been proud , America 's fat cats have capped a record year by undermining President-Elect Bill Clinton 's plans to soak the rich , before he has even set foot in the White House . |
| 5 | ‘ He has never set foot in Israel and yet claims to be an expert in Israeli affairs . |
| 6 | ‘ We are both like cheap wine — we do n't travel well , ’ explains Peter , who to this day has never set foot in America , let alone Hollywood . |
| 7 | THE first Essex Senior Cup final , in 1884 , saw Colchester beat Braintree 3–1 but the garrison town has never set eyes on Signor Fattorini 's masterpiece since . |
| 8 | Having hardly set foot on American soil , and with out a second thought , he boarded the next liner and sailed back . |
| 9 | Of course , I 've only set eyes on him a couple of times . ’ |
| 10 | In spite of the fact that he had not set foot in Toledo throughout the entire operation , he was acclaimed as the saviour of the alcazar and received with smiles and gestures of obvious satisfaction the near-delirious attentions of the survivors of the siege . |
| 11 | How could she possibly know , since he had not set eyes on the girl ? |
| 12 | Panel beater Gordon Reid ( 32 ) , had just set fire to rubbish in the old oil drum while clearing up at his car body repair garage at Fenton Barns . |
| 13 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 14 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 15 | Now I comes to think on it , I 've not set eyes on Black Will since afore we went to the Garden Tower last evening . ’ |
| 16 | I 've not set eyes on her since I got back . ’ |
| 17 | While O'Neill would have shared some of those views , he was more concerned with the future than with the past and he deliberately set about ending Ulster 's ‘ petty apartheid ’ by visiting Catholic schools ( no previous Ulster premier had ever set foot in one ) , being photographed talking to priests and nuns , and meeting a cardinal . |
| 18 | No sea that Marion had ever set eyes on was that particular shade of transparent , light-filled turquoise . |
| 19 | Few here had ever set eyes on the man they were mourning , but they saw in his act the ultimate sacrifice for their dream of independence . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm trying to recall if I 've ever set eyes on her ; I 've a vague memory of a plump wee lass at a cousin 's wedding three or four years back . |
| 21 | I do n't think I 've ever set eyes on her , ’ said Jack . |
| 22 | I had n't set foot inside the place since my visit with The Fat Controller . |
| 23 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |
| 24 | She had n't set eyes on him for years , but there was no mistake . |
| 25 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 26 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 27 | Police fired into a crowd of demonstrators , killing and injuring a number of bystanders , after left-wing activists had reportedly set fire to a Royal Nepal Airlines fuel depot and smashed street lamps , telephone exchange equipment and vehicles in both Kathmandu and the nearby town of Patan . |
| 28 | Like tin soldiers they fell ; for none of their nation had yet set foot in Fort Vaux . |
| 29 | Lydia had barely set foot beyond the ashram in three years when Lorne turned up to kidnap her for a reconnaissance mission with him to Celebes island , eight hundred miles away to the north-east . |
| 30 | Ronni had barely set eyes on Guido for days . |