Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instant she set foot on the land she must set off , all uphill , to the point . |
| 2 | The moment she set foot in the house , Cook called out to her . |
| 3 | Early the following year , the Hopewell was loaded once more with harvests of cotton and indigo as well as its principal cargo , 9,500 pounds of tobacco , and she set sail from the harbour with her sails reefed against the season 's squalls and a small crew on board , under James Lariot as captain . |
| 4 | The time they set fire to the |
| 5 | He circled once more on the mild wind and finally , without looking back , he set course to the north , to try to find the distant beloved place called Cape Wrath where once , so long ago , he had been born . |
| 6 | It set fire to the sheets , but luckily he managed to put the flames out with some water . ’ |