Example sentences of "they set fire [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several victims were so afraid they would n't see their loved ones again they set fire to their pubic hair . |
| 2 | They attacked the bridge in the dead of night and when the crew barricaded themselves in , they set fire to the decks . " |
| 3 | They set fire to houses and some of the younger people are taken to prison and tortured for information about the Shanti Bahini ( there are now about 2,000 tribal people in prison without trial ) . |
| 4 | In early April students had rioted in Kinshasa , the capital , showing frustration over lack of political reform , corruption in politics , and low levels of grants ; they set fire to 25 buses and called for Mobutu 's resignation . |
| 5 | They set fire to trucks at a meat processing plant near Northampton and at the pig improvement company at Kingston Bagpuize in Oxfordshire . |
| 6 | Vandals sparked a blaze when they set fire to old tyres at the former Walker Tyres site , in West Auckland , early yesterday . |
| 7 | The alleged killers finally drove to a field near Burton Salmon , North Yorks , where they set fire to their car and escaped on foot . |
| 8 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 9 | ‘ They set fire to our sheep and never even invited us to the barbecue . ’ |