Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were told that she set to work ‘ editing ’ the crazed philosopher 's work to make it more Nazi , and that Elisabeth had a strong and malign influence on the growth of National Socialism . |
| 2 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |
| 3 | And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project . |
| 4 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 5 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 6 | He agreed , and she set to work . |
| 7 | She gave him the bacon and eggs and he set to ravenously . |
| 8 | One day he noticed that a mutation of this rose , pink in colour , ad emerged naturally , and he set to work to make sure it did not revert — and succeeded . |
| 9 | It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her . |
| 10 | The congress confirmed the decline in party authority when it set in place a leadership divorced as never before from the mechanisms of state and government . |
| 11 | JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe . |