Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was only when Taggy found the key to this room , and I discovered it to be so beautiful , that we set to and cleaned it between us . ’ |
| 5 | It was nearly four weeks ago that we set from Chelsea on the way to Australia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project . |
| 8 | So , a story set in contemporary Britain is likely to be easier ( for British pupils ) than one set in a different period of history or in a different culture or environment . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Transfer the icing cut-outs to a sheet of foil or non-stick paper , and rest the ‘ birthday cake ’ cut-out on a piece of foil wrapped around a cake tin , so that it sets into a curved shape . |
| 11 | Melt the remaining 3 oz. of clarified butter and pour it , tepid , over the tongue paste , so that it sets in a sealing layer about one eighth of an inch thick . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 14 | She taught me the basics : casting-on , how to knit and pearl , and I set to work . |
| 15 | A 1:50,000 flat sheet map of the area was quickly acquired and I set to work scouring the area for my standard size circles , using Gresford All Saints as a perimeter marker . |
| 16 | From the foregoing work that Tim Grant and I set in motion I believe that we have gained certain value . |
| 17 | Everyone is short of cash , and nobody set on the goal of having a station could argue with the idea of combining the efforts . |
| 18 | He agreed , and she set to work . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I fetched the glasses , broke the seal and we set to . |
| 21 | The fuel system had three different sized pipes all leaking and one set to self destruct on the hot manifold as were two of the water pipes to the rear heater . |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Apple pie , ’ he said , and they set to work . |
| 24 | First , most clients tell the solicitor what they want and he sets about getting it for them . |
| 25 | She gave him the bacon and eggs and he set to ravenously . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Barthes describes how the make-up has the ‘ snow thickness of a mask ; it is not a painted face , but one set in plaster , protected by the surface of the colour not by its lineaments ’ ( Barthes , 1973 ) ; ‘ and the eyes simply black in the strange soft flesh but not in the least expressive ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 29 | She ca n't half talk , she 's only two and a half but aye and when she sets off that 's it . |
| 30 | In his Essay he observed , ‘ When we set before our eyes a round globe … it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted in our mind is of a flat circle . ’ |