Example sentences of "we set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off we set into the station proper , aware we were already late for the train 's arrival . |
| 2 | We set to work and produced the rally and it was terrific . |
| 3 | So we set to under our section corporal , Jimmy Brough , and slogged away until we had completed ten such excavations , wondering where the tents were that were to fill them . |
| 4 | The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work . |
| 5 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Meanwhile , having appealed to Leavis , we received from him almost by return a literary essay , and we set to work to write our own pieces . |
| 8 | I fetched the glasses , broke the seal and we set to . |
| 9 | It was only when Taggy found the key to this room , and I discovered it to be so beautiful , that we set to and cleaned it between us . ’ |
| 10 | It was nearly four weeks ago that we set from Chelsea on the way to Australia . |
| 11 | Civilization had to be more than a mere confluence of economic interests : ‘ And until we set in order our own crazy economic and financial systems , to say nothing of our philosophy of life , can we be sure that our helping hands to the barbarian and the savage will be any more desirable than the embrace of the leper ? ’ |
| 12 | Because we are outraged by the conflict in Yugoslavia today , we should be ready for similar things to happen elsewhere in Europe unless we ensure that we set in place institutions to prevent them . |
| 13 | THE person with the yellow rosette looked barely old enough to be supping the pint we set in front of him . |
| 14 | In his Essay he observed , ‘ When we set before our eyes a round globe … it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted in our mind is of a flat circle . ’ |