Sentence examples for set a house from inspiring English sources
He's like a man who set a house on fire asking for credit for pouring water on the smoking embers.
In Al Amin, a neighborhood in southeast Baghdad, a Shiite man said he had watched gunmen set a house on fire.
Two Long Island teenagers admitted in court yesterday that they set a house ablaze last July because Mexican immigrants were living there.
Adult fare also proved lucrative: The critically acclaimed "Book of Mormon" set a house record for the Eugene O'Neill Theater last week, grossing $1,014,228 - a significant achievement for a theater with just 1,066 seats.
The convicted men were part of a mob that set a house on fire in Ode village in Anand district, and prevented the occupants from escaping during the communal riots, the report says.
Hugh Jackman's new concert on Broadway set a house record at the Broadhurst Theater, earning more than of $1.2 million last week, a result of the producers' decision to charge exorbitant prices for tickets to Mr. Jackman's first return to Broadway as a singer since his Tony Award-winning performance in "The Boy from Oz" eight years ago.
Susan Emmett, residential research director at Savills, said: "While the Conservatives have not set a house-building target, it has been the coalition government's policy to support the housing market as a mechanism for stimulating consumer confidence, creating jobs and therefore supporting economic growth.
"Forcibly separating children from their parents is like setting a house on fire.
He retaliated against those who crossed him, officials said, by setting a house and several cars on fire.
And it's hard to know the precise legacy of that isolationism, which can seem like the pilot light of a creative furnace or the match setting a house, if not a bridge, aflame.
PITTSBURGH, April 7 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of intentionally setting a house fire that killed a family of six last year, the district attorney said on Tuesday.
