Example sentences of "sets fire to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 4 | It tries to jump the gap and in doing so sets fire to y the surrounding material that the blanket is made of and that 's where you start to get problems on your fire blankets . |
| 5 | Tonight , a remand prisoner sets fire to himself . |