Example sentences of "and set [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 28 June 1930 in the East India Docks I climbed the gangway of the Sorrento and set foot on her rusty iron deck . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , a ship was sent to America so that the story could be checked and in 1810 , three years after his being cast away on Sombrero , Jeffrey returned at last and set foot in Portsmouth . |
| 3 | On November 26 the large assembled Imperial Japanese fleet , led by Task Force Commander Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo , weighed anchor in Hitokapu Bay and set course for Hawaii . |
| 4 | Woolley felt the blast wash over his SE , pushing it aside , and he turned with the motion and set course for home , dissatisfied at the inefficiency of it all . |
| 5 | and set narcissi with our white fingers . |
| 6 | In conjunction with considerable manual dexterity derived in part from the ability to oppose thumb and index finger which man shares with the gelada baboon and presumably derives from the same source ( picking up small objects of the diet ) , the adoption of an upright posture created the right conditions for the final emancipation of the hand from locomotion and set man on the path which led to the invention and use of tools and to material culture in general . |
| 7 | Soon after police arrived to carry out the order , violence spread , as students smashed and set fire to Mr Kamba 's Mercedes car , and police responded with tear gas and baton charges . |
| 8 | Then she lopped off her head and finally decided to douse her mortal remains with petrol and set fire to herself . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 11 | Ravana captured Hanuman and set fire to his tail , but the monkey avenged himself by growing to the size of a giant and setting fire to the city . |
| 12 | Around 80 demonstrators , angered by the Gatt deal , laid stones across a road and set fire to tyres in an attempt to prevent British cars and coaches leaving the port . |
| 13 | One may remember Ioreth repeating to her cousin in Gondor that Frodo ‘ went with only his esquire into the Black Country and fought with the Dark Lord all by himself , and set fire to his Tower , if you can believe it . |
| 14 | ‘ They brought her out with a gun in her back , a woman of seventy , and set fire to the place while she watched . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet . |
| 17 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 18 | I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They waited until the old man was asleep and set fire to his hut . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's why Duvall is going to soak it in paraffin and set fire to it if they 're able to in this storm . ’ |
| 22 | Where the kids shot the skyrocket through the fan-light and set fire to all the furniture ? |
| 23 | In July 1595 , when a Spanish force landed and set fire to Mousehole , Paul , Newlyn , and Penzance , Godolphin ‘ engaged himself very worthily ’ , and rallied men for the defence of Penzance and Marazion . |
| 24 | It shifted even more when a former missionary from Africa came in , bought a copy , took it out on the end of a pair of coal tongs , and set fire to it . |
| 25 | She mutilated herself , damaged her cell , showed violence towards staff and set fire to her bedding . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On April 26 Shining Path guerrillas had killed 16 ronderos and set fire to houses in the town of Nuevo Progresso in Ayacucho department . |
| 29 | The rocket , fired from a nearby building , touched the top of the minister 's car and set fire to a nearby car . |
| 30 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |