Example sentences of "[pers pn] set to work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |
| 2 | I set to work with the pick . |
| 3 | She set to work on Emily 's shoes , pride insisted that she finish the job she had begun even if she was never paid for it . |
| 4 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 5 | She set to work with a vengeance , losing herself in the difficult task of making all those fiercely vivid images of him that were swirling around in her head tangible . |
| 6 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |
| 7 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 8 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 9 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 10 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |
| 11 | He sets to work at once , restoring the chapel at his place in Lincolnshire , then moves rapidly on from his main house in Bedfordshire ( already improved ) to a third estate in Kent which needs attention . |
| 12 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 13 | He set to work on apartments eight and nine at Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 14 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 15 | Thumbing the bullets out on to a sheet of old newspaper , he set to work with his knife . |