Example sentences of "have [adv] set foot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dealt with the owner personally , and he has n't set foot in the place since the war . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He has never set foot in Israel and yet claims to be an expert in Israeli affairs . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Having hardly set foot on American soil , and with out a second thought , he boarded the next liner and sailed back . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had n't set foot inside the place since my visit with The Fat Controller . |
| 9 | Like tin soldiers they fell ; for none of their nation had yet set foot in Fort Vaux . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I must say I was quite surpri I 've never set foot in the place before since that time we went down before it was open . |
| 12 | It was ironic , as it must be presumed that he had never set foot on French soil . |
| 13 | Zambia had never set foot inside Jahsaxa 's personal space before but , as SHe suspected , it was tastefully bare , illumined softly by concealed lighting . |
| 14 | Mr Yardley , according to his wife , had never set foot in the tent . |
| 15 | I had been there once or twice but she had never set foot in my father 's new home . |
| 16 | However , he had never set foot in the village again . |
| 17 | ‘ When the proposals failed , I gave up on the profession and have not set foot in the Institute since , but it is characteristic of Bill 's commitment that he has carried on regardless . ’ |
| 18 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 19 | I have never set foot in it . |