Example sentences of "set [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |
| 2 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 3 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 4 | Meanwhile she was not to set foot outside the door , as a plague of field-mice infested the estate . |
| 5 | Jean-Paul thinks the French brought prosperity to a poor country , and he goes on believing it because he takes care never to set foot outside the European quarter . |
| 6 | ‘ That I was n't meant to set foot outside the house and grounds ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of them immediately returned home , never to set foot in the tropics again — while the other , Werner Meyer , the only white doctor left on the island , stayed on to become the director of Makassar 's hospital . |
| 10 | " They are good women " , Martha said , " but I 'm not going to set foot in the place while that 's going on . |
| 11 | To set light to the straw the team were using a mixture of petrol and spirits . |
| 12 | JOHN Major , of course , is known to set store by the ‘ feelgood factor ’ occasioned by English sporting successes . |
| 13 | However , the Department of Agriculture 's proposals for the 1990 farm bill , introduced on Feb. 9 , 1990 , to set policy for the next five years , failed to address the issue of subsidy levels and merely proposed modifications to the current programme . |
| 14 | Her duty is like the duty not to set fire to the forest which entails the duty to put out any fire one started . |
| 15 | Surely no one would be so wicked as to set fire to the place ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | ‘ He clearly knew he was going to set fire to the flat . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He ca n't understand why anyone would want to set fire to the garage and cars . |
| 21 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | And then I have to set fire to the bottom bit . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 28 | When the adventurers set foot on the stairs , each is allowed a WP test ( Magic Sense +10 ) to sense that some form of magical trap exists . |
| 29 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 30 | Those totems were my warning shot ; anybody who set foot on the island after seeing them should know what to expect . |