Example sentences of "[adv] set [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they are in place , you can have the shingle delivered — it can be dumped directly on to a drive site from the road , but you 'll need to barrow it to remote garden paths , so set planks on the lawn if you have to run across it . |
| 2 | ‘ THIS is the place , ’ said Brigham Young as his wandering , persecuted tribe of Mormons finally set eyes on the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch mountains rising in fairyland fantasy before the rising sun . |
| 3 | The UK government yesterday set mid-July as the date for the sale of its remaining 22% holding in British Telecommunications Plc . |
| 4 | The two men put down their pens and stared at her ; no woman ever set foot within the dockyard gates . |
| 5 | Let me make it quite plain , if Mike Channon ever set foot in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League Division Three he would not go anywhere but Athletico , even if I had to sell my house and body to keep him here . |
| 6 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 7 | Japanese traditionally set store by the heroic virtue of gaman , which means long-suffering perseverance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But as It celebrated a year of publication it had grown from twelve to twenty pages , with the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section now , significantly , filling two tightly set pages at the back , and the Arts Lab offering a ‘ Black Power Week ’ complete with Stokeley Carmichael — bundled out of the country post Dialectics of Liberation — on film , and ‘ Michael Abdul Malik and guests ’ . |
| 10 | Changes in methods of firing and the growing popularity of Raku have altered all this , and whether you immerse the object in sawdust , and then set fire to the lot , or just sprinkle sawdust on the newlyfired and still hot piece , the subtleties in surface texture can be extremely rewarding . |
| 11 | The Christian soldiers spent a thirsty and sleepless night , their eyes smarting from the smoke which blew into their camp as the enemy systematically set fire to the dry scrub around them . |
| 12 | In fact , my little castaway , she never set foot on the island at all — would n't come near the place . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Never set eyes on the bugger , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Harry Gosling , secretary of the Lightermen and president of the NTWF , looking back some 15 years after the event , had no doubt however : " It was J.Havelock Wilson who actually set fire to the heather . |