Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best coaches will recognise this and set to work . |
| 2 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 3 | Caroline was delighted and set to work transforming her straight , shoulder-length hair into a glamorous new look . |
| 4 | He was very quick to observe anything abnormal and set to work to get some explanation … |
| 5 | Far off she heard the drone of a tractor working late or set for home . |
| 6 | His hands gripped the arms of his chair , levering himself upwards , his face grim and set with determination . |
| 7 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 8 | Suzanne , who left school in July , is clinging to life in the burns unit at Withington Hospital after being stripped , beaten and set on fire by captors who also shaved her head . |
| 9 | Murdock had found these ideas rather attractive and set to work to build a locomotive model . |