Example sentences of "we set [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set to work and produced the rally and it was terrific . |
| 2 | The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work . |
| 3 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 4 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 5 | Meanwhile , having appealed to Leavis , we received from him almost by return a literary essay , and we set to work to write our own pieces . |
| 6 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 7 | THE person with the yellow rosette looked barely old enough to be supping the pint we set in front of him . |
| 8 | Because we are outraged by the conflict in Yugoslavia today , we should be ready for similar things to happen elsewhere in Europe unless we ensure that we set in place institutions to prevent them . |