Example sentences of "and [verb] fire to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 26 Shining Path guerrillas had killed 16 ronderos and set fire to houses in the town of Nuevo Progresso in Ayacucho department . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , instead of dispersing , the Uzbeks rampaged into the city centre , smashing cars and setting fire to houses , shops and buses along the way . |
| 7 | Emily was imprisoned eight times for stone-throwing , window-breaking , and setting fire to postboxes ; she was forcibly fed over one hundred times , mainly during her last imprisonment . |
| 8 | On the Isle of Man they were known as Hogmen and tended to be far more aggressive , kidnapping women and children and setting fire to barns . |