Example sentences of "they set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They set to sea in boats and cruisers ; one newspaper even hired a Lear jet , which flew over the area day after day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Apple pie , ’ he said , and they set to work . |
| 4 | Back in France , they set to work . |
| 5 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Energetic — and friendly whenever they came across her and Thomas — they set to work clearing it . |