Example sentences of "[adv prt] and set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just marched in and set to work . |
| 2 | She sat down and set to work on the files . |
| 3 | The inner flesh was as raw as a recent wound , and clear resin had oozed to the surface , trickled down and set into sticky pink runnels . |
| 4 | When they had done her back , they turned her over and set to work on her front . |
| 5 | I was smashing everything up and setting about people , 'cause I did n't know what was going on or nothing . |
| 6 | Steam for 70 min , by the end of which time the pudding will be perfectly puffed up and set with a just-molten streak in the centre . |
| 7 | Hector ! ’ he was crying as he was dragged up and set to an oar . |
| 8 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |