Example sentences of "[vb base] fire to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | The Home Office could not confirm reports that the two men set fire to themselves . |
| 4 | Then she lopped off her head and finally decided to douse her mortal remains with petrol and set fire to herself . ’ |
| 5 | A KURDISH refugee who set fire to himself after being told his application for political asylum in Britain had failed has died , intensifying criticism of the Home Office 's handling of the Kurds ' plight , writes Mike Prestage . |
| 6 | THE HOME OFFICE yesterday released 25 more Kurds seeking political asylum in Britain from detention centres but denied it was bowing to pressure after the death of a detainee who set fire to himself last week . |
| 7 | The writ alleges that on the night of 26/7 February 1987 Sean Harris , a night security guard employed by Reliance , set fire to the company 's premises at the Manor Royal Industrial Estate , Croydon , causing damage estimated at £460,000 . |
| 8 | PROTESTERS set fire to banks and offices of the ruling Socialist Party yesterday as Basques mourned the assassination of one of their leaders . |
| 9 | Three minutes into the second-half the non-Leaguers ' obligatory fireman , Mottashed , instead of shooting himself in the foot , set fire to himself with a jittery own goal and Loram shortly made it 3-1 , deader than dead . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They have become a prime target for teenage joyriders who often set fire to stolen cars when they have finished with them . |
| 12 | ‘ We set fire to it , ’ said the visitor , anxious to make some kind of philosophical statement . |
| 13 | Set fire to the place ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the face of government determination to enforce the February 1911 laws more than eight thousand Aube growers marched through the streets of Bar-sur-Aube carrying on their backs paniers de mannequin ( grape harvesting baskets ) full of tax-forms which they ceremoniously set fire to . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The hoaxers set fire to paper underneath a smoke alarm at a university three miles away . |
| 19 | Then a dreadful thing happened , or so I heard , for they had left the farm by then , ; the poor Rector — I expect it was his own doing , for they say he drank far too much — set fire to himself in bed one night , and the house was burnt and he with it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ They brought her out with a gun in her back , a woman of seventy , and set fire to the place while she watched . |
| 22 | Paul Chadd , prosecuting , claimed Harper , who is not related to the twins , set fire to straw bales to provide light . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And who set fire to the truck ? ’ |
| 25 | His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet . |
| 26 | Several victims were so afraid they would n't see their loved ones again they set fire to their pubic hair . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Guatemalan security forces set fire to the building and he was incinerated , along with 30 of his campesino colleagues . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Early on May 29th in Solingen , say the police , young neo-Nazis set fire to the house where the Genc family lived . |