Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] set [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alleged killers finally drove to a field near Burton Salmon , North Yorks , where they set fire to their car and escaped on foot . |
| 2 | Then you make a double-bogey on the 1st , so you set par as a target . |
| 3 | What would you do if I set fire to the new , to the shirt ? |
| 4 | And who set fire to the truck ? ’ |
| 5 | Early the following year , the Hopewell was loaded once more with harvests of cotton and indigo as well as its principal cargo , 9,500 pounds of tobacco , and she set sail from the harbour with her sails reefed against the season 's squalls and a small crew on board , under James Lariot as captain . |
| 6 | This is Marilyn … and she set sail alongside her more statuesque companions . |
| 7 | ‘ If you set fire to Barbs 's back garden , people 're going to notice . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They 'll notice if you set fire to her house too , ’ said Camille . |
| 9 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 10 | And it worked for him and we set type by hand and pulled proofs . |
| 11 | Finding that the aircraft would still fly , he formed up behind the Fulmar and they set course for Malta . |
| 12 | A local thug phoned up the office and said ‘ tell them if they set foot in Drogheda they wo n't get out alive ’ . |
| 13 | She would like to go to sleep now and not wake up until they set foot in America . |
| 14 | Today at Oxford Crown Court admitted one charge of arson … after he set fire to his home in desperation … |
| 15 | The destroyer 's forward gun crew and mortarmen were all dead or wounded , her bow a cauldron of smoke and thermite fumes , even though the incendiary bomb was put out before it set fire to Campbeltown 's warhead of depth charges . |
| 16 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 17 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 18 | When you set fire to it , it burns and explodes immediately , with a noise louder than thunder . |
| 19 | As we set course down the first valley low stratus blocked our way , and since squeezing underneath received a thumbs-down from both pilot and passenger , we orbited and asked for an IFR clearance . |
| 20 | Rosslyn Park , for example , are first in line to experience the probable backlash of that defeat when they set foot on the Recreation Ground this afternoon . |
| 21 | Vandals sparked a blaze when they set fire to old tyres at the former Walker Tyres site , in West Auckland , early yesterday . |
| 22 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 23 | Flames flicker as they set light to the rubbish — not to reduce it to ashes but to see what is worth collecting . |
| 24 | As soon as he sets foot on the elaborate stairway which rises three floors from the dark hall , itself leading off a gloomy cobbled courtyard , he has the feeling that he is leaving for a blessed hour or two his insubstantial world . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry : he says , as he sets foot to floor . |
| 26 | But as soon as he set foot on it , Branson wanted it . |