Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb base] to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 2 | We would urge staff to stop this silliness and return to work . ’ |
| 3 | They moved into a second floor flat , so Dawn now had to run her own home and travel to work each day . |
| 4 | After producing the Crowther Report , the Central Advisory Council was reconstituted under the chairmanship of John Newsom and set to work . |
| 5 | When he found himself in charge of a famous school he seized his opportunity and set to work to instil in the offspring of the ruling classes the personally desirable and politically vital sense of sin . |
| 6 | The person in charge of product development decided to carry out all the modifications simultaneously ( although not forced to by LIFESPAN ) , made a senior programmer the user associated with the DCs and instructed him to activate the DCs on the main package and set to work . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , their collective duty done , his colleagues from the organisation would turn their backs on the smoking chimney and return to work , shaking off the morning 's cold in the warm and reassuring office routines that marked their days . |
| 8 | They could live in pleasant suburbs and travel to work ; they could take off to previously distant areas for their holidays . |
| 9 | She fetched her ladder and shears from the garden shed and set to work . |
| 10 | While fitzAlan hefted the grey 's hoof and set to work , she glanced about , absently patting Chalon 's velvety muzzle . |
| 11 | breakdown in communications and Permit to Work system at shift changeover |
| 12 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 13 | in the morning and go to work |
| 14 | He glanced around , then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock . |
| 15 | They bought a set of plans , hired space at a boat builders ' yard and set to work . |
| 16 | I took my make-up out of my bag , leaned close to the mirror and set to work on my face . |
| 17 | Some women choose to take maternity leave and return to work relatively soon after the birth of their child , either through financial necessity or from choice . |
| 18 | All that Burton himself would say ( much later ) was that ‘ something of a small family crisis demanded that I should leave school and go to work ’ . |
| 19 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 20 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 21 | I get back to my office and set to work with the phone . |