Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] set fire [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the face of government determination to enforce the February 1911 laws more than eight thousand Aube growers marched through the streets of Bar-sur-Aube carrying on their backs paniers de mannequin ( grape harvesting baskets ) full of tax-forms which they ceremoniously set fire to . |
| 4 | and describe , well seasoned you know and and then he got his lighter out and he just set fire to her |
| 5 | The publicity may not exactly have gone to his head but it certainly set fire to his ambition . |