Example sentences of "[conj] he set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 2 | First , most clients tell the solicitor what they want and he sets about getting it for them . |
| 3 | She gave him the bacon and eggs and he set to ravenously . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |