Example sentences of "he set [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in the Depression era , in a dusty southern mill town , Ms Amelia ( Vanessa Redgrave ) is an eccentric store owner , whose unconsummated marriage to local bad boy Marvin Macy ( Keith Carradine ) , has him set on revenge against her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He set to work steadily on replacing the panes of the side windows . |
| 5 | Sampson , however , insisted that Lewis should put his name to anything which was written , and in the course of 1939 he set to work . |
| 6 | Thumbing the bullets out on to a sheet of old newspaper , he set to work with his knife . |
| 7 | As soon as he got there he set to work . |
| 8 | Then he set to work laying siege to her with letters . |
| 9 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 10 | He set to work straight away to make a stronger plastic . |
| 11 | He set to work on apartments eight and nine at Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 12 | Having recovered only the partial use of one hand , he set to work and wrote Beneath the Visiting Moon . |
| 13 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 14 | And so he set to work : despite the usual interruptions , by the end of the year he managed to complete drafts of two acts which he dispatched to Martin Browne . |
| 15 | Having obtained this , he set to work to enclose the parish and to rearrange its landscape . |
| 16 | One day he noticed that a mutation of this rose , pink in colour , ad emerged naturally , and he set to work to make sure it did not revert — and succeeded . |
| 17 | Then he set to work honing his own brand of precision engineering into countless dance records put out under the name Reese ( short for Maurice , his middle name ) , Reese and Santonio and KS Experience . |
| 18 | Frantically , he set to work dismantling it . |
| 19 | Out of nine poems he set to music , Cale eventually chose four , ‘ that seemed to hang together , especially ‘ Lie Still , Sleep Becalmed ’ . |
| 20 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |
| 21 | The text from the Canticle of Canticles 2:4 ordinavit in me caritatem ( he set in order charity in me ) distils imaginatively Hilton 's understanding that love can only be properly expressed through a disciplined orientation of the particular gifts and powers of the self to God . |
| 22 | When Admiral James Watkins , US secretary of energy , instructed his Department of Energy ( DoE ) laboratories to clean up their heavily contaminated sites , he set in motion an elegant synergy that is leading to new ways of destroying pollutants . |
| 23 | Relations between Becker and the rest of the German team would appear to have deteriorated after the incident in Melbourne when , within minutes of learning that Stich and Udo Riglewski had been nominated to represent Germany in the doubles , in Barcelona , he set in motion a chain of events which led to a quick re-think . |