Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] set [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between Dec. 31 and Jan. 2 several thousand Azerbaijani rioters pulled down or set fire to fences and other installations along a 137-km stretch of the border between the Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( an Azerbaijani exclave separated from Azerbaijan proper by a strip of Armenian territory ) and Iran . |
| 2 | I mean , you imagine somebody breaking in and setting fire to a trailer . |
| 3 | You did right chopping the Governor down and setting fire to the forum — but do n't tell them I said so . |
| 4 | The vandals broke into the house , piled the cooker with linen then switched it on and set light to it . |
| 5 | The lightning blew the roof off and set fire to its timber frame . |
| 6 | Near the draw dock some longshoremen had heaped it up and set light to it , to clear the area . |
| 7 | Would we leave a thing like that when any kiddy could knock the chocks out or set light to it ? |
| 8 | There was a whiffling noise and a beam of red light shot out and set fire to a patch of scrub several hundred yards away . |
| 9 | From the Canadian Arctic Porsild ( 1951 ) records catkins forming on Salix richardsonii , one of the dwarf willows , during an unseasonable warm spell in April ; the catkins were frozen solid during a subsequent three-week spell of intense cold , but resumed flowering immediately afterwards and set seed in June . |