Example sentences of "[noun pl] set to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the gents loo , an old guy sits doing the Daily Record crossword while the red-faced clubbers wearing a mixture of sportsgear , the odd Happy Mondays G-Mex sweatshirt , ponchos and flares set to work on their hair with free gel and mousse . |
| 2 | The craftsmen set to work , the people pour in their gifts , and the tabernacle , its fittings and the priests ' robes are all completed exactly as God has laid down . |
| 3 | Vortigern consulted magicians who told him he should build a stronghold in Wales but as his workers set to work on a hill in Snowdonia their building materials sank into the earth . |
| 4 | Although fish are not a usual ‘ pest ’ , the team of servicemen set to work immediately and , wearing protective clothing and breathing apparatus , removed the decomposing fish and freezers from the premises . |
| 5 | In the first room he looked into , the window space had already been commandeered by two native pensioners and an indigo planter ; in the next room he was just in time to see the camel guns fired … the sofa recoiled on its protesting castors and the men serving the guns set to work to re-load . |
| 6 | The girls set to work , sewed , talked , laughed , and combed their hair . |
| 7 | ‘ More money , more money ! ’ he demands , and clever minds set to work at his behest , the computers shift and change a little all over the world , and presently his bank balance shows another nought ; and , so that that nought should be there , somewhere in the undeveloped world another ten backs break needlessly . |
| 8 | CHASTENED COGNOS SETS TO WORK PUTTING THE WHEELS BACK ON ITS WAGON |
| 9 | Rayleigh and Jeans set to work to calculate this spectrum . |