Example sentences of "[adv] set [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was also a builder and developer of culture , and worked endlessly to set Germany upon a firm governmental and financial footing after the internal struggles that had long divided the German territories against one another . |
| 2 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 3 | A POLICEMAN was slashed with a knife when he tried to arrest a man who had just set fire to a £9,000 Volvo car , Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | Talented Hughes and ex-North Wales county team member Preston from Prestatyn were too strong for professional coach Arwyn Pierce of Ruthin and his young partner Danielle Morris Jones of Rhyl , running out straight set winners at a cost of six games . |
| 5 | One method was simply to set fire to a ‘ train' of gunpowder leading to the charge itself , the length of the train corresponding roughly to the time delay before the charge exploded ; a later method involved a kind of fuse of goose quills filled with gunpowder . |
| 6 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 7 | The French , who would n't set foot on a plage without weighing themselves down with their entire jewellery collection , are good at finding tiny little shorts with nifty frou-frou tops . |
| 8 | ‘ Down here we have n't set eyes on a banana for years ! |
| 9 | Police fired into a crowd of demonstrators , killing and injuring a number of bystanders , after left-wing activists had reportedly set fire to a Royal Nepal Airlines fuel depot and smashed street lamps , telephone exchange equipment and vehicles in both Kathmandu and the nearby town of Patan . |
| 10 | A man who , for the sheer fun of it , intentionally torments and then sets fire to a cat , knowing full well what he is doing , is a paradigm example of what legal and moral opposition to cruelty to animals has meant historically . |
| 11 | They have no respect for non-Jewish culture and would be only too happy if Jews never set foot in a university . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ To those of you who have eyes to see and ears to hear the message from Damien in this coffin through his mother : never , never set foot in a stolen car again , ’ Fr Kelly told mourners at St Patrick 's Church , Donegall Street . |
| 13 | The poster scheme also provides an excellent opportunity to expose large numbers of the population , who rarely or never set foot within a gallery , to contemporary art . |
| 14 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 15 | People like Michelle probably never set eyes on a dentist normally . |
| 16 | Equality is not itself a curriculum aim ; yet no curriculum that actually sets limits to a child 's future can be acceptable . |