Sentence examples for they burned it from inspiring English sources

Mr. Riyad said a Muslim resident stepped in and challenged the mob, "saying if they burned it, they should burn him as well".

There was fuel, but they burned it.

"The fighters ordered the women to leave the village after they burned it," she recounted.

They marched, unarmed, to the terrorist compound and then they burned it to the ground.

"My house, before they burned it down, looked like a polka-dotted dress.

"The car kept rolling, so they burned it," the official said.

He built a big house for them and they burnt it down.

After a long debate they burnt it to preserve the poet's reputation, and those of his lovers.

When the Romans under Scipio Aemilianus Scipio Aemilianus defeated Carthage in 146 B.C., they burnt it to the ground and rubbed salt in the earth, so that nothing would ever grow there again.

Some years after the award, Bill Drummond attempted to explain the K Foundation's motives, as he now saw them: The K Foundation's art campaign, Money: A Major Body Of Cash, failed to attract major gallery interest so, on 23 August 1994, Drummond and Cauty disposed of their one million pounds in an alternate fashion: they burnt it on the Scottish island of Jura.

DARFUR/NEW YORK, 26 July 2004 – Fifteen-year-old Amna Mohammed's story is disturbingly commonplace in Darfur and Chad: "The Janjaweed took all the property from our village and they burnt it and the other villages nearby," she says, speaking quietly.