Example sentences of "[adv] set foot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men put down their pens and stared at her ; no woman ever set foot within the dockyard gates . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll do what I can , ’ Parmedes said resignedly , cursing the day he ever set foot in Club Eleusis . |
| 3 | He was approaching thirty-two and the elusive big break and rainbow 's end that is the goal of everyone who ever set foot in Hollywood seemed no nearer to achievement . |
| 4 | ‘ If she ever set foot in this house , I 'd walk out of it , ’ Mary continued . |
| 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 | Something inside Merrill protested at the lie , but she went on stonily , ‘ I think I had your measure before I ever set foot in these offices . |
| 7 | The Witch King of Naggaroth once more set foot on the land from where he 'd so long ago been driven . |
| 8 | London hardly set foot in their own half in that second half , but , with Morris constantly exhorting his forwards and putting in key tackles , the North restricted them to just one Rob Andrew penalty goal . |
| 9 | In fact , my little castaway , she never set foot on the island at all — would n't come near the place . ’ |
| 10 | She never set foot in Greece again . |
| 11 | They have no respect for non-Jewish culture and would be only too happy if Jews never set foot in a university . ’ |
| 12 | Underdogs Cambridge survived a desperate opening 13 minutes during which they never set foot in Oxford 's half . |
| 13 | They 'll probably be rather dusty , but they 're quite separate from the house and I can guarantee that Eleanor 's never set foot in them . |
| 14 | ‘ To those of you who have eyes to see and ears to hear the message from Damien in this coffin through his mother : never , never set foot in a stolen car again , ’ Fr Kelly told mourners at St Patrick 's Church , Donegall Street . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The poster scheme also provides an excellent opportunity to expose large numbers of the population , who rarely or never set foot within a gallery , to contemporary art . |