Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be on fire " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grey stone walls rose about them , and winged roofs surfaced with rose-red tiles caught the sun so that they seemed to be on fire . |
| 2 | When I held up my hand , it , too , seemed to be on fire . |
| 3 | Maggie 's feet seemed to be on fire with each stone she encountered . |
| 4 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 5 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 6 | An acre of grassland and 100 railway sleepers caught fire but now have been put out , however the rest of the building is understood to be on fire . |
| 7 | In a radio conversation departure control told the crew ’ Sweep 02 — tower advises that your tail appears to be on fire . |
| 8 | ‘ The whole city seems to be on fire , and across the river too . |
| 9 | My whole body seems to be on fire . |
| 10 | Both Kiku and Turakina had insisted on riding and , as they galloped along the borders of the cornfields which supplied the Kha-Khan 's granaries , Turakina 's unbound hair streamed out behind her so that her whole head appeared to be on fire . |