Example sentences of "set fire [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |
| 2 | The obvious interpretation was that Eric was going to set fire to some dogs , but I was too wise in the ways of the Factory to treat that as definite ; I suspected there was more |
| 3 | What 's more , this detonation ( which takes place on a remote beach , with only a dog as witness ) does n't set fire to other parts of the novel . |
| 4 | The danger is , once people acquire an appetite for burning buildings down , sooner or later they will set fire to one with someone inside . |
| 5 | Always the message was the same : ‘ Child , I could set fire to green grass , but it would not burn . ’ |
| 6 | If I had my way I 'd set fire to those blasted overalls . ’ |
| 7 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 8 | ‘ Rory , ’ Kenneth said , sitting forward and lowering his voice to conspiratorial levels , ‘ the last secret I remember you telling me was that it was you who set fire to that barn on the Urvill 's estate . ’ |
| 9 | Where the kids shot the skyrocket through the fan-light and set fire to all the furniture ? |
| 10 | In early April students had rioted in Kinshasa , the capital , showing frustration over lack of political reform , corruption in politics , and low levels of grants ; they set fire to 25 buses and called for Mobutu 's resignation . |
| 11 | Vandals sparked a blaze when they set fire to old tyres at the former Walker Tyres site , in West Auckland , early yesterday . |
| 12 | Latish that night I got a box of matches and my torch and went across the back field and set fire to this Dutch barn . |
| 13 | The Karen National Union on Jan. 8 and 14 reportedly attacked and set fire to three oil tanker trucks belonging to a Thai logging company working in Karen State , killing one of the drivers . |
| 14 | And she had set fire to one of them . |
| 15 | Riot police using tear gas and water cannons dislodged several dozen self-proclaimed " anarchists " who had set fire to administrative offices at Athens Polytechnic University on the night of Oct. 24-25 . |
| 16 | My own view of New Age used to be , and to some extent still is , not dissimilar to that of the performance artist Trevor Stewart , who under the alias of Ted Bunny , ritually sets fire to soft toys as a protest ‘ against everything New Age and holistic ’ . |
| 17 | Its unfortunate nineteenth century occupants varied from those guilty of setting fire to one of her Majesty 's ships , embezzling Queen 's stores and ‘ threatening to stab one Lorrazo Cielcovich ’ or breaking a door to the still familiar ‘ drunk and disorderly ’ . |
| 18 | A similar system obtained in North America , where the Indians lived in villages , making clearings and foraging for firewood and other produce , setting fire to much of the forest to drive and enclose game . |
| 19 | According to some reports , the march was infiltrated by masked youths who stoned ground-floor windows of the Education Ministry and then moved through the city centre towards the Polytechnic , smashing shop windows and setting fire to two cars and a bus . |
| 20 | Tommy set fire to some of Donald 's hair by mistake . |