Example sentences of "we set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We set to work and produced the rally and it was terrific . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work . |
| 4 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I fetched the glasses , broke the seal and we set to . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |