Example sentences of "[noun pl] set [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He says that first the farmers set fire to the road , then they had to get through the drivers ' blockade .
2 As the train was pulling into the station at Shkodër some of the rioters set light to the last two carriages ; at least two passengers were burned to death .
3 Early on May 29th in Solingen , say the police , young neo-Nazis set fire to the house where the Genc family lived .
4 The Guatemalan security forces set fire to the building and he was incinerated , along with 30 of his campesino colleagues .
5 The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands .
6 When the adventurers set foot on the stairs , each is allowed a WP test ( Magic Sense +10 ) to sense that some form of magical trap exists .
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