Example sentences of "[conj] set [prep] fire " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shops that are vandalised or set on fire . |
| 2 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |
| 3 | They tore down pictures of President Ceausescu , cut the Socialist emblem from the national flag , and set on fire any red flags they came across . |
| 4 | A barricade was built in Fahan Street and set on fire and a continuous fusillade of stones was thrown at the police sheltering behind Butcher Gate . |
| 5 | Worshippers arrived at the temple in Ealing , west London , to find the doors had been soaked in petrol and set on fire . |
| 6 | A TEENAGE girl was fighting for her life last night after being kidnapped , tortured and set on fire . |
| 7 | Suzanne , who left school in July , is clinging to life in the burns unit at Withington Hospital after being stripped , beaten and set on fire by captors who also shaved her head . |
| 8 | EACH HAD BEEN IN A BOMBING , ROBBERY OR OTHER CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND SET ON FIRE TO REMOVE FINGERPRINTS . |
| 9 | Unidentified groups of rioters attacked and set on fire the city police headquarters , where it was believed that some of those arrested earlier in University Square were being held . |
| 10 | In the early hours of the following day , persons widely suspected to be Round Table supporters shot at and then ransacked and set on fire the offices on Rustaveli Prospekt used by the National Democratic Party and the National Independence Party ( both part of the so-called Congress Movement ) . |
| 11 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 12 | Thank you Stephen from Leicestershire , he says that he has seen people tied to posts and set on fire . |
| 13 | These forts were built of stone tied together with wood beams which when set on fire generated sufficient heat to fuse or " vitrify " the stones . |
| 14 | These forts were built of stone tied together with wood beams which when set on fire generated sufficient heat to fuse or " vitrify " the stones . |