Example sentences of "they set [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Finding that the aircraft would still fly , he formed up behind the Fulmar and they set course for Malta .
2 By daylight it was clear they had missed their rendezvous , and at about 0800 they set course for Malta , taking a back-bearing from Mount Etna .
3 Rosslyn Park , for example , are first in line to experience the probable backlash of that defeat when they set foot on the Recreation Ground this afternoon .
4 She would like to go to sleep now and not wake up until they set foot in America .
5 A local thug phoned up the office and said ‘ tell them if they set foot in Drogheda they wo n't get out alive ’ .
6 They set traps of silk across the flyways between the branches and so continued to take toll of the insect population .
7 Several victims were so afraid they would n't see their loved ones again they set fire to their pubic hair .
8 They attacked the bridge in the dead of night and when the crew barricaded themselves in , they set fire to the decks . "
9 They set fire to houses and some of the younger people are taken to prison and tortured for information about the Shanti Bahini ( there are now about 2,000 tribal people in prison without trial ) .
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 They set fire to trucks at a meat processing plant near Northampton and at the pig improvement company at Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire .
12 Vandals sparked a blaze when they set fire to old tyres at the former Walker Tyres site , in West Auckland , early yesterday .
13 The alleged killers finally drove to a field near Burton Salmon , North Yorks , where they set fire to their car and escaped on foot .
14 A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday .
15 They set fire to our sheep and never even invited us to the barbecue . ’
16 People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me .
17 Though when they set eyes on her , her sails were furled , to Ruth she looked magnificent .
18 Flames flicker as they set light to the rubbish — not to reduce it to ashes but to see what is worth collecting .
19 Some large customers will offer their suppliers incentives to do so , but more often they will offer ultimata : they set deadlines by which their suppliers must convert to EDI if they want to continue to be their suppliers .
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