Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] set [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day he would pour petrol over that snot stained rag then stuff it into Smith 's mouth and set fire to it . |
| 2 | The rocket , fired from a nearby building , touched the top of the minister 's car and set fire to a nearby car . |
| 3 | The three defendants were formally cleared by the judge , but then straight after the case they issued a statement admitting they had intended to remove animals from a vehicle and set fire to it . |
| 4 | With the last of the petrol I covered the body of the catapult and the used-up bottle of the ‘ thrower where they lay on the sand and set fire to them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On April 26 Shining Path guerrillas had killed 16 ronderos and set fire to houses in the town of Nuevo Progresso in Ayacucho department . |
| 8 | She mutilated herself , damaged her cell , showed violence towards staff and set fire to her bedding . |
| 9 | On Thursday night , vandals smashed through a heavily padlocked , steel-panelled door and set fire to the stock . |
| 10 | Then she lopped off her head and finally decided to douse her mortal remains with petrol and set fire to herself . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 14 | It was White , said Evans , who kidnapped the couple and set fire to their car . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why Duvall is going to soak it in paraffin and set fire to it if they 're able to in this storm . ’ |
| 16 | Youths fired an arrow through the window of one house and set light to another in an attempt to silence them . |
| 17 | Where the kids shot the skyrocket through the fan-light and set fire to all the furniture ? |
| 18 | His flight engineer WO W. G. Higgs wrote : On the night of 10/20 September 1942 we were attacked by a Bf110 from below ; he hit us in the port mainplane and set fire to numbers five and six fuel tanks , " the ailerons were jammed and the fuselage was also on fire . |