Example sentences of "he set [prep] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 2 | He set to work steadily on replacing the panes of the side windows . |
| 3 | Sampson , however , insisted that Lewis should put his name to anything which was written , and in the course of 1939 he set to work . |
| 4 | Thumbing the bullets out on to a sheet of old newspaper , he set to work with his knife . |
| 5 | As soon as he got there he set to work . |
| 6 | Then he set to work laying siege to her with letters . |
| 7 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 8 | He set to work straight away to make a stronger plastic . |
| 9 | He set to work on apartments eight and nine at Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 10 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 11 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 12 | And so he set to work : despite the usual interruptions , by the end of the year he managed to complete drafts of two acts which he dispatched to Martin Browne . |
| 13 | Having obtained this , he set to work to enclose the parish and to rearrange its landscape . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then he set to work honing his own brand of precision engineering into countless dance records put out under the name Reese ( short for Maurice , his middle name ) , Reese and Santonio and KS Experience . |
| 16 | Frantically , he set to work dismantling it . |