Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] set on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my heart set on a soft-top — preferably a Corvette or a Mustang — and I was n't going to let a spot of bracing weather stand in my way . |
| 2 | But I had my heart set on training a bird . |
| 3 | She had her heart set on it . ’ |
| 4 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 5 | Barbra , 50 , had her heart set on property in California until she found out it was in the path of the killers which are slowly migrating north from South America where 600 people have been stung to death . |
| 6 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 7 | these and all his other cars became very popular , but Chapman had his heart set on entering the world of Formula One racing . |
| 8 | After all , he reminded himself , he was Prior William now and had his eye set on further promotion . |
| 9 | A prisoner who refused to join in a boycott of prison food had his cell set on fire by fellow inmates . |