Example sentences of "[pers pn] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without further ado , I set to work . |
| 2 | She taught me the basics : casting-on , how to knit and pearl , and I set to work . |
| 3 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So I set to work learning Italian intensively , because I continued to feel , and increasingly felt , that anything that could help to keep Italy out of any war that might take place , ought to be done . |
| 6 | I set to work with the pick . |
| 7 | I 'm a crane , I 'm a lorry , I 'm a brand-new motorway I set like concrete and I 'm here to stay |
| 8 | From the foregoing work that Tim Grant and I set in motion I believe that we have gained certain value . |
| 9 | When you have a course that works , you do n't sit back and watch the grass grow — you set to work to make it even better . |
| 10 | ‘ You can be confident that the flywheel of change which you set in motion is resolutely turning , ’ said Director Engineering Group . |
| 11 | When a honey bee discovers a flower , for example , she sets in motion a learning sequence which seems utterly mechanical in nature . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At once , she set to work and made such a remarkable copy of a Michelangelo that she was sent , when ten years old , to the Dublin School of Art where she learnt drawing and sculpture . |
| 14 | Now that the party was over , she set to work to remove all traces of it , because she could n't bear the aftermath of revelry . |
| 15 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 16 | She set to work on Emily 's shoes , pride insisted that she finish the job she had begun even if she was never paid for it . |
| 17 | He agreed , and she set to work . |
| 18 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 19 | She set to work with a vengeance , losing herself in the difficult task of making all those fiercely vivid images of him that were swirling around in her head tangible . |
| 20 | Walking back to Rebecca 's cluttered desk , she set to work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Hoping Penry Vaughan would n't mind if she borrowed his hairbrush , she set to work . |
| 23 | oh she set to work and she cleared the she had , what did she have ? , meat , er chicken , potatoes , cauliflower , Yorkshire pudding |
| 24 | We set to work and produced the rally and it was terrific . |
| 25 | The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work . |
| 26 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was nearly four weeks ago that we set from Chelsea on the way to Australia . |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |