Example sentences of "and set [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A MAN who doused his clothes with petrol and set himself on fire in a bank in Co Tipperary was under intensive care in hospital today . |
| 2 | Now , just you sit down again , and set yourself at ease . ’ |
| 3 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 4 | After 10 years of torment , Kiranjit Ahluwalia , 36 , threw petrol over sleeping husband Deepak and set him on fire . |
| 5 | Whereas a white youth may have visions of becoming a successful sportsman , his parents may have a strong enough hold over him to deflect him and set him on course for a ‘ straight ’ job ; often this is not the case with blacks . |
| 6 | Sometimes the violent power of the Spirit is seen in almost physical terms , as when the Spirit of the Lord entered into Ezekiel and set him on his feet , or lifted him up , or brought him out into the valley ( Ezek. 2:2 , 3:12 , 37:1 ) . |
| 7 | When Appio did not listen to her she would get angry , lift him like a feather and set him on top of a chest of drawers . |
| 8 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 9 | Cornelius lifted him down and set him upon the copper map . |
| 10 | As the animal jumped into the flames , Buddha manifested himself , snatched the hare from the fire and set him in the Moon . |
| 11 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 12 | Quick as a flash , Baba Yaga 's daughter turned her visitor into a needle , stuck her into the birch-broom , and set her on one side . |
| 13 | He swung her round and set her on her feet , looking at her as might a desert traveller who had just found water . |
| 14 | Giggling — even her mother ! — they undressed her to her shift and set her in the bed , uncomfortably decorated with fruit and sheaves of barley , to await her husband . |
| 15 | But how naughty of you to pluck her and set her in a vase that only you see ! |
| 16 | When abruptly he lifted his head and set her from him , dazed and disorientated , she staggered a little before regaining her balance . |
| 17 | Like that and set it on Q. |
| 18 | Somebody would 've put a match to it and set it on fire , we would have got money for going to deal with it . |
| 19 | Oh it was the first that ever started in Orkney , nobody ever thought You see before they used to cut their crop and set it in stokes . |
| 20 | Aye stood there and mind one halloween , the boys took it and set it in front of 's door . |