Example sentences of "set fire [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His troops under the Earl of Hertford devastated the great Border abbeys , ravaged defenceless villages , set fire to the Canongate in Edinburgh , and inflicted heavy damage on Holyroodhouse . |
| 2 | He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade . |
| 3 | Harry Gosling , secretary of the Lightermen and president of the NTWF , looking back some 15 years after the event , had no doubt however : " It was J.Havelock Wilson who actually set fire to the heather . |
| 4 | The Guatemalan security forces set fire to the building and he was incinerated , along with 30 of his campesino colleagues . |
| 5 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 6 | And who set fire to the truck ? ’ |
| 7 | The writ alleges that on the night of 26/7 February 1987 Sean Harris , a night security guard employed by Reliance , set fire to the company 's premises at the Manor Royal Industrial Estate , Croydon , causing damage estimated at £460,000 . |
| 8 | Changes in methods of firing and the growing popularity of Raku have altered all this , and whether you immerse the object in sawdust , and then set fire to the lot , or just sprinkle sawdust on the newlyfired and still hot piece , the subtleties in surface texture can be extremely rewarding . |
| 9 | They attacked the bridge in the dead of night and when the crew barricaded themselves in , they set fire to the decks . " |
| 10 | His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet . |
| 11 | On Thursday night , vandals smashed through a heavily padlocked , steel-panelled door and set fire to the stock . |
| 12 | Early on May 29th in Solingen , say the police , young neo-Nazis set fire to the house where the Genc family lived . |
| 13 | Set fire to the place ! |
| 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 | Set fire to the place ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |