Example sentences of "set [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the ones nipping in and out of the general ruck , tapping ankles , trying to spray-paint out the windows and one of them even trying to set fire to a bunch of leaflets stuffed through Naamen 's letter-box . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They have no respect for non-Jewish culture and would be only too happy if Jews never set foot in a university . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She 'd never so much as set foot in a rowing boat ! |
| 6 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Set light to a car with a gang of others . |
| 9 | Before Adam could react with his weapons , the passenger in the BMW , a young blond skinhead , set light to a glass bottle half-filled with petrol with a piece of rag stuffed in the top , and hurled the Molotov cocktail through Billie 's open window into the Quattro . |
| 10 | Olympic gold medallist Chris Boardman will set light to a bonfire and fireworks display being held by Hoylake and West Kirby Round Table at Hoylake rugby club at 7pm on Saturday night . |
| 11 | Then you make a double-bogey on the 1st , so you set par as a target . |
| 12 | Set membership of a package need not comprise only source modules and the package module itself ; other packages may also be specified . |
| 13 | I set fire to a barn , not realising that there was a sick cow in there that perished , and I got three years ’ approved school . |
| 14 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 15 | Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge . |
| 16 | POLICE are examining security videos in an attempt to track down arsonists who set fire to a football ground and laid booby traps just hours before Middlesbrough played there . |
| 17 | There was a whiffling noise and a beam of red light shot out and set fire to a patch of scrub several hundred yards away . |
| 18 | Police are hunting arsonists who set fire to a house in Stamford Street , Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | Last night , after smashing windows , the culprits set fire to a library room and flames spread to highly flammable materials in a store room . |
| 20 | Last night , after smashing windows , the culprits set fire to a library room and flames spread to highly flammable materials in a store room . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Someone had set light to a sofa on the second floor beneath a party on the floor above . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Not even her fear of setting foot in a boat again would keep her from making the crossing to the mainland the moment the trip to Brides Haven was feasible . |
| 25 | The inquest jury returned verdicts of unlawful killing and one of suicide also challenged in the case of Trevor Carrington , 38 , the party guest said to have confessed to setting light to a sofa and starting the blaze . |
| 26 | It does n't sound like Mozzer is going to have to explain himself ; last week I saw an Asian punk rock band called Cornershop articulate many people 's feelings by setting fire to a poster of the misguided buffoon . |
| 27 | Yesterday the Mirror revealed that a similar model ‘ spontaneously ignited , ’ setting fire to a toddler 's carpet . |
| 28 | French farmers recently sought to protect their markets by setting fire to a lorry load of live sheep being exported from Britain for slaughter in an abbattoir in mid-France . |
| 29 | After setting fire to a collier and a house by the harbour , not very successfully , thanks to a sudden heavy storm , Jones successfully withdrew , despite the fire of a party of militia , and , when he had re-embarked , of cannon shot from some guns in the batteries which had escaped being spiked . |
| 30 | Once upon a time a man could hang for setting fire to a hayrick ! |