Example sentences of "[verb] set [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has set demobilisation of the guerrillas as a condition for reforms . |
| 2 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 3 | Salutations 0 Mighty Apollo ! glad your music tour went down well , playing the fiddle standing on your head while drinking a glass of water is very clever , none but a Nero could do it , but you really should not have set fire to the auditorium as an encore . |
| 4 | I was glad that we had not troubled him personally , though we confessed that we should like to have set foot in the flat . |
| 5 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 6 | Mr Jones , the landlord of The Two Pheasants , was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar , and Albert Piggott , stomach pains forgotten , had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes , and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer 's ‘ Crucifixion ’ , in 1942 . |
| 7 | In other words , someone had set fire to the dacha , and the things had been stolen from it before the fire had started . |
| 8 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 9 | One of the men had set fire to the kitchen curtains . |
| 10 | Soon after being remanded to Pentonville Prison he was attacked by his psychotic cellmate who had set fire to the cell . |