Example sentences of "and set [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physiotherapist must be able to assess the patient 's needs , both overall and from session to session , in order to define an effective rehabilitation programme and to set him realistic goals . |
| 2 | Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within . |
| 3 | On the night of 11 October , a day after Hunt 's publication , Protestants gathered on the Shankill Road to attack the Catholic Unity Flats , threw stones and bottles at the British troops who were thwarting their advance , overturned cars and set them ablaze , and , unprecedentedly , directed gunfire at the RUC . |
| 4 | Police said ten armed men broke into a warehouse late on Tuesday night in the south of Medellin , Escobar 's home town , poured petrol over six Rolls-Royces , a Mercedes , a Porsche and 20 motorcycles and set them ablaze . |
| 5 | Following the instructions , I filled my saucepans and kettle with water and set them all to boil . |
| 6 | The folk of these towns and villages took their convicted witches , stood them in pitch-filled barrels and set them afire : in Forres stands a witches ' stone , site of such burnings — in thunder , lightning , or in rain ? |
| 7 | Forestry workers say joyriders who steal cars and set them alight in isolated woodland risk causing a devastating forest fire . |
| 8 | He would have checked your equipment in advance , brought extension lead and table , checked the video on that particular TV and set it all up while you were shaking hands and making conversation rather than getting flustered . |
| 9 | In effect we must differentiate ( 6 ) with respect to and set it equal to zero . |
| 10 | One night he went to her house , poured paraffin through the letter-box and on to the front door , and set it alight . |
| 11 | ‘ I hear they 've poured oil on the sea and set it alight ’ said a shore boy . |
| 12 | A 23-year-old woman poured paraffin over her 38-year-old lover and set it alight as he lay bound hand and foot , and blindfolded , ‘ wearing a pair of her open-crotch panties and nylon stockings ’ on a mattress in their living-room . |
| 13 | Eye-witnesses said that a man dressed like a beggar boarded a Greek tourist bus in central Istanbul on April 9 , poured an inflammable liquid over the upper deck and set it alight . |
| 14 | Thousands of people stormed the local PLA headquarters and set it alight , and the windows of the city council building and city library were broken . |
| 15 | They tied him into the car and set it alight . |
| 16 | I would like to ask if you could officiate at the start , and set us all off . |
| 17 | If I had my choice , I 'd rather be left to work something out myself ; instead of it all being set up and you just walk in and take measurements , go away and analyse them , you 'd have to go in and set it all up , then you 'd really learn something . |
| 18 | The wide range of existing tranquillizers had no common chemical features by which they could be identified , so this approach had some merit , particularly in inspiring chemists and setting them free to pursue interesting chemical problems with no biological constraints . |
| 19 | IN A WOOD in South Ockendon , Essex , on the very outskirts of London , two brothers spend their days cutting dead timber , loading it into a steel kiln and setting it alight . |
| 20 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |