Example sentences of "and set fire [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after police arrived to carry out the order , violence spread , as students smashed and set fire to Mr Kamba 's Mercedes car , and police responded with tear gas and baton charges . |
| 2 | Then she lopped off her head and finally decided to douse her mortal remains with petrol and set fire to herself . ’ |
| 3 | In early April two young farm labourers , Valdecir Ferreira and Altair Gomes , narrowly escaped death when a mob 1,500-strong stormed and set fire to the prison where they were being held for the gory knife murder of a taxi-driver , in the state of Parana . |
| 4 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 5 | Ravana captured Hanuman and set fire to his tail , but the monkey avenged himself by growing to the size of a giant and setting fire to the city . |
| 6 | Around 80 demonstrators , angered by the Gatt deal , laid stones across a road and set fire to tyres in an attempt to prevent British cars and coaches leaving the port . |
| 7 | One may remember Ioreth repeating to her cousin in Gondor that Frodo ‘ went with only his esquire into the Black Country and fought with the Dark Lord all by himself , and set fire to his Tower , if you can believe it . |
| 8 | ‘ They brought her out with a gun in her back , a woman of seventy , and set fire to the place while she watched . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet . |
| 11 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
| 12 | I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom . |
| 13 | Latish that night I got a box of matches and my torch and went across the back field and set fire to this Dutch barn . |
| 14 | They waited until the old man was asleep and set fire to his hut . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's why Duvall is going to soak it in paraffin and set fire to it if they 're able to in this storm . ’ |
| 16 | Where the kids shot the skyrocket through the fan-light and set fire to all the furniture ? |
| 17 | In July 1595 , when a Spanish force landed and set fire to Mousehole , Paul , Newlyn , and Penzance , Godolphin ‘ engaged himself very worthily ’ , and rallied men for the defence of Penzance and Marazion . |
| 18 | It shifted even more when a former missionary from Africa came in , bought a copy , took it out on the end of a pair of coal tongs , and set fire to it . |
| 19 | She mutilated herself , damaged her cell , showed violence towards staff and set fire to her bedding . |
| 20 | In a new departure , EPLF gunboats attacked and set fire to a Polish freighter off the Eritrean Red Sea coast on Jan. 3 ; they seized the 30-strong crew and fired rockets to drive off a second Polish freighter which attempted to come to their aid . |
| 21 | The Karen National Union on Jan. 8 and 14 reportedly attacked and set fire to three oil tanker trucks belonging to a Thai logging company working in Karen State , killing one of the drivers . |
| 22 | On April 26 Shining Path guerrillas had killed 16 ronderos and set fire to houses in the town of Nuevo Progresso in Ayacucho department . |
| 23 | The rocket , fired from a nearby building , touched the top of the minister 's car and set fire to a nearby car . |
| 24 | As you 'll know , had we been in India , we would have built a pyre and set fire to them . |
| 25 | One day he would pour petrol over that snot stained rag then stuff it into Smith 's mouth and set fire to it . |
| 26 | With the last of the petrol I covered the body of the catapult and the used-up bottle of the ‘ thrower where they lay on the sand and set fire to them . |
| 27 | His flight engineer WO W. G. Higgs wrote : On the night of 10/20 September 1942 we were attacked by a Bf110 from below ; he hit us in the port mainplane and set fire to numbers five and six fuel tanks , " the ailerons were jammed and the fuselage was also on fire . |
| 28 | It was White , said Evans , who kidnapped the couple and set fire to their car . |
| 29 | The lightning blew the roof off and set fire to its timber frame . |
| 30 | The three defendants were formally cleared by the judge , but then straight after the case they issued a statement admitting they had intended to remove animals from a vehicle and set fire to it . |