Example sentences of "set [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 2 | Or set himself on fire like a Buddhist monk , but accidentally . |
| 3 | A MAN who doused his clothes with petrol and set himself on fire in a bank in Co Tipperary was under intensive care in hospital today . |
| 4 | Moments before he set himself on fire , Mr Chittenden phoned the Daily Post 's office in Chester , asking staff there to go to the United Friendly offices in Chester 's St Werburgh Street . |
| 5 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency , which was due to end next year , was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind . |
| 6 | This one man set himself above the bloody incident in the snow and the yelping sound of the siren . |
| 7 | Ratagan set himself to starting a fire whilst the rest rubbed down the horses and searched for firewood . |
| 8 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 9 | In Transylvania such sentiments were attacked by the right-wing Romanian nationalist organization , Vatra Romaneasca ( " Romanian Hearth " ) , which set itself in opposition to the rising tide of expectation on the part of Hungary , the unspoken Hungarian aim , in Vatra 's opinion , being the incorporation of Transylvania into Hungary . |
| 10 | In Seoul a 38-year-old woman set herself on fire and leapt to her death in front of Yonsei University , and two other people were hospitalized after setting themselves on fire during the May 18 demonstrations , bringing to eight the number of self-immolations ( six of them fatal ) associated with the current protests . |
| 11 | Lesley set herself to be the most enlightening and intelligent of guides . |
| 12 | Scrambling to her feet , she set herself to rights , before stalking back to the house . |
| 13 | How would he have felt , he sometimes asked himself , if he had married a woman who set herself against his ethnic origins ? |
| 14 | She thought of Africa and its special ordeals with greedy excitement ; she set herself against its vast and glorious horizons . |
| 15 | But those who choose violence set themselves on the opposing side from democracy . |
| 16 | Now , just you sit down again , and set yourself at ease . ’ |
| 17 | I took this down to the town hall the following day and then set myself to the most urgent task in hand : trying to find another job . |
| 18 | Next day , I set myself to writing out my dream , as Horace Walpole did with his dream of Otranto . |
| 19 | I am writing these lines on the last day of 1986 , the deadline I set myself for reaching the Great Glen with my pen . |
| 20 | In the flush of enthusiasm , if not youthful , at least inexperienced , I set myself in 1960 two major objectives : one was the development of extramural services — ‘ community care ’ was the jargon — which would reduce the incidence of hospital care and counteract the institutionalism of long-stay hospitals ; and the other , not unconnected , was to break down the huge mental hospitals inherited from the nineteenth century . |