Example sentences of "sets [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |
| 2 | When he is 105 days old a " foot-touching-the-ground " ceremony is held , when the child is ritually " planted " in matter , and first sets foot on the earth . |
| 3 | It is made clear to the prisoner from the moment he sets foot in the institution that his personal feelings are considered irrelevant . |
| 4 | a watcher sets light to the gorse . |
| 5 | For Manjiku is a monster , a seadragon , he sets fear in the heart of every man . |
| 6 | But the Bible sets marriage in a wider context . |
| 7 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 8 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |