Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So we set to under our section corporal , Jimmy Brough , and slogged away until we had completed ten such excavations , wondering where the tents were that were to fill them . |
| 3 | And so he set to work : despite the usual interruptions , by the end of the year he managed to complete drafts of two acts which he dispatched to Martin Browne . |
| 4 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 5 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 6 | Then she set to with bleach and scouring pads to render the vases spotless . |
| 7 | Then he set to work laying siege to her with letters . |
| 8 | Then he set to work honing his own brand of precision engineering into countless dance records put out under the name Reese ( short for Maurice , his middle name ) , Reese and Santonio and KS Experience . |
| 9 | As soon as he got there he set to work . |