Example sentences of "they set [noun sg] [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 | Several victims were so afraid they would n't see their loved ones again they set fire to their pubic hair . |
| 7 | They attacked the bridge in the dead of night and when the crew barricaded themselves in , they set fire to the decks . " |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They set fire to trucks at a meat processing plant near Northampton and at the pig improvement company at Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire . |
| 11 | Vandals sparked a blaze when they set fire to old tyres at the former Walker Tyres site , in West Auckland , early yesterday . |
| 12 | The alleged killers finally drove to a field near Burton Salmon , North Yorks , where they set fire to their car and escaped on foot . |
| 13 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ They set fire to our sheep and never even invited us to the barbecue . ’ |
| 15 | Flames flicker as they set light to the rubbish — not to reduce it to ashes but to see what is worth collecting . |