Example sentences of "[vb mod] set to " in BNC.

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1 They set a time , however , within which the coheir should set to construction , and after which they wished Procula alone to construct , imputing costs to her coheir for his share .
2 So — unless you want baked beans ( and I know I do n't ) let's set to work . ’
3 Men would set to , cleaning and polishing , burnishing brass , copper and silver .
4 I do know that at Low Birk Hatt , after finishing working in the fields all day , he would set to joinering at night , and made several of the doors and gates .
5 And he would set to work to cover reams of paper with still lifes , boats , fishermen , figures , birds and clouds , completing a sixty-foot decoration in one day .
6 Written over twenty years ago , it is admittedly a tentative sketch put on in the hope that some English historians and archaeologists would set to work in a more expert way and on a bigger scale .
7 ‘ In the church of S. Andrea della Valle , the exterior of which has already been restored , we will set to work on Mattia Preti 's grandiose but much-damaged frescoes and in Santa Maria della Pace we will restore Raphael 's Chigi Chapel , also in a poor state of preservation ’ .
8 His starting point can be anything from a scale drawing prepared by a draughtsman to a crude sketch , but as long as the room dimensions are correct Andrew can set to work in the Sheffield studio .
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