Example sentences of "set fire [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One method was simply to set fire to a ‘ train' of gunpowder leading to the charge itself , the length of the train corresponding roughly to the time delay before the charge exploded ; a later method involved a kind of fuse of goose quills filled with gunpowder . |
| 2 | They were the ones nipping in and out of the general ruck , tapping ankles , trying to spray-paint out the windows and one of them even trying to set fire to a bunch of leaflets stuffed through Naamen 's letter-box . |
| 3 | Her duty is like the duty not to set fire to the forest which entails the duty to put out any fire one started . |
| 4 | Surely no one would be so wicked as to set fire to the place ? ’ |
| 5 | Some of the more irresponsible youths had tried to set fire to the building but somehow it did not catch and went out much to their disappointment ! |
| 6 | ‘ He clearly knew he was going to set fire to the flat . |
| 7 | He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling . |
| 8 | To see him in this way has made it possible — has made it logical and rational — to set fire to the night skies of Iraq . |
| 9 | He ca n't understand why anyone would want to set fire to the garage and cars . |
| 10 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 11 | By the time the work had finished two internal walls had been completely destroyed and Crook took the decision to set fire to the flat in the hope Langbaurgh Council , which owns the block , might rehouse him . |
| 12 | THE owner of a derelict boarding house was accused yesterday of killing a friend who had allegedly helped him to set fire to the building in an ‘ insurance job ’ . |
| 13 | And then I have to set fire to the bottom bit . |
| 14 | They have white filters , and I am concerned lest in this poor light I should mistakenly set fire to the wrong end . |
| 15 | It 's a pretty sight alright , even if sparks do set fire to the dry grass on either side of the track , enraging landowners . |
| 16 | Some day I 'm gon na set fire to the joint personal . ’ |
| 17 | We 'll set fire to the rocks up here and create a huge explosion . |
| 18 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 19 | There was a whiffling noise and a beam of red light shot out and set fire to a patch of scrub several hundred yards away . |
| 20 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 21 | In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid . |
| 22 | The rocket , fired from a nearby building , touched the top of the minister 's car and set fire to a nearby car . |
| 23 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 24 | This rumour may have done what the poll tax did in 1381 , set fire to a potentially explosive situation , indeed one which had already shown signs of bursting into flame . |
| 25 | Police are hunting arsonists who set fire to a house in Stamford Street , Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | POLICE are examining security videos in an attempt to track down arsonists who set fire to a football ground and laid booby traps just hours before Middlesbrough played there . |
| 27 | Last night , after smashing windows , the culprits set fire to a library room and flames spread to highly flammable materials in a store room . |
| 28 | Last night , after smashing windows , the culprits set fire to a library room and flames spread to highly flammable materials in a store room . |
| 29 | The writ alleges that on the night of 26/7 February 1987 Sean Harris , a night security guard employed by Reliance , set fire to the company 's premises at the Manor Royal Industrial Estate , Croydon , causing damage estimated at £460,000 . |
| 30 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |