Example sentences of "[verb] to set [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 2 | You may also need to set jumpers on the motherboard according to the type of RAM devices you are using and the video card . |
| 3 | She could n't eat , could n't concentrate on her work , could n't do anything except wander round and round the drawing-room , frightened to set foot outside the door in case she bumped straight into Julius . |
| 4 | He ca n't understand why anyone would want to set fire to the garage and cars . |
| 5 | Deacon Palmer was a golf professional-cum-greenkeeper at Latrobe , near Pittsburgh , and he would never presume to set foot inside the clubhouse unless specifically invited by a member . |
| 6 | The type of argument exemplified by Strawson 's claim undoubtedly has a strong intuitive appeal , and versions of this approach have , ever since Kant , been popular as a means of seeking to set limits to the use of causal explanations in accounting for human affairs . |
| 7 | Oxford English provides all the materials needed to set children on the right track . |
| 8 | " They are good women " , Martha said , " but I 'm not going to set foot in the place while that 's going on . |
| 9 | ‘ He clearly knew he was going to set fire to the flat . |
| 10 | JOHN Major , of course , is known to set store by the ‘ feelgood factor ’ occasioned by English sporting successes . |
| 11 | ‘ That I was n't meant to set foot outside the house and grounds ? ’ |
| 12 | Some of the more irresponsible youths had tried to set fire to the building but somehow it did not catch and went out much to their disappointment ! |
| 13 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |
| 14 | He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling . |
| 15 | As we have seen ( Chapter 2 ) , it is not the ideal way to start , but it is a fact of life , and the size of the budget does , to a significant extent , serve to set limits on the opportunities open to the media planner . |
| 16 | Had Shakespeare demanded reverberating resonance from his tortured prince he might have chosen to set Hamlet in the finest piece of neo-classical architecture in Europe rather than the rotten state of Denmark . |
| 17 | And then I have to set fire to the bottom bit . |