Example sentences of "set it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What were you going to do , set it to music ? |
| 2 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 3 | Fumbling , panicking , he got the grey metal wastebin from under the desk and set it on top . |
| 4 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 5 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 6 | Polish protesters hurled paint and petrol on a monument to Lenin in Krakow and set it on fire yesterday before clashing with police , who used force to break up the second anti-Soviet disturbance in a week . |
| 7 | Until computers can take over , the only way to carry out experiments is to build a full-sized test rig , and set it on fire . |
| 8 | He divided his force into three , one division under Fraser to sack the village and set it on fire ; one under the Border chiefs to round up all the cattle and stock they could find in the vicinity — they were the experts at this ; and his own grouping to encircle the castle and at least present Dacre and Balliol with a challenge . |
| 9 | One artist who seems not to believe that is Julian Schnabel , screenwriter of the Basquiat-inspired scenario entitled ‘ Build a fort , set it on fire ’ . |
| 10 | As they wrote out a ticket 30-year-old Pere Costa smashed the car 's windows , doused it in petrol and set it on fire before walking home yesterday and leaving the police to deal with the blaze . |
| 11 | Western diplomats who witnessed the violence said that they saw security force members place explosives in the car belonging to Laurent Gbagbo , the FPI leader , and set it on fire . |
| 12 | A strange freedom , though ; one a barrage balloon would know if someone severed its cable and set it at liberty to wallow and wander at will . |
| 13 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 14 | Oliver corrected the clock and set it in motion . |