Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pers pn] set [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I fetched the glasses , broke the seal and we set to .
2 It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her .
3 JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe .
4 And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project .
5 From the foregoing work that Tim Grant and I set in motion I believe that we have gained certain value .
6 She gave him the bacon and eggs and he set to ravenously .
7 The congress confirmed the decline in party authority when it set in place a leadership divorced as never before from the mechanisms of state and government .
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