I mean why did you set the place on fire?

He had his secretary set the time and the place of the appointment.

In the living room I watched her set the extra place.

To cover their tracks, they set the place on fire, but something went wrong.

"So she just sat there while someone set the place on fire around her?"

But he has not set the place on fire either.

"My son could be in that town, and I'm not going to risk his life setting the whole place on fire."

Ed's crazy friends came before we could get there, set the place on fire, and killed at least two of the women.

In other words, they occasionally set the whole place on fire.

It would have been a relatively simple job to set the place on fire.