Example sentences of "[noun] and set it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 23-year-old woman poured paraffin over her 38-year-old lover and set it alight as he lay bound hand and foot , and blindfolded , ‘ wearing a pair of her open-crotch panties and nylon stockings ’ on a mattress in their living-room . |
| 2 | They tied him into the car and set it alight . |
| 3 | Eye-witnesses said that a man dressed like a beggar boarded a Greek tourist bus in central Istanbul on April 9 , poured an inflammable liquid over the upper deck and set it alight . |
| 4 | Thousands of people stormed the local PLA headquarters and set it alight , and the windows of the city council building and city library were broken . |
| 5 | IN A WOOD in South Ockendon , Essex , on the very outskirts of London , two brothers spend their days cutting dead timber , loading it into a steel kiln and setting it alight . |
| 6 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |
| 7 | He would have checked your equipment in advance , brought extension lead and table , checked the video on that particular TV and set it all up while you were shaking hands and making conversation rather than getting flustered . |
| 8 | ‘ I hear they 've poured oil on the sea and set it alight ’ said a shore boy . |