Example sentences of "set to work [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is to set to work without great expense and elaborate machinery , or under primitive conditions . |
| 2 | But if it were pigeon droppings then it would be a moot point as to whether merely to murmur condolences and hurry on or to set to work with a clean handkerchief . |
| 3 | ‘ In the church of S. Andrea della Valle , the exterior of which has already been restored , we will set to work on Mattia Preti 's grandiose but much-damaged frescoes and in Santa Maria della Pace we will restore Raphael 's Chigi Chapel , also in a poor state of preservation ’ . |
| 4 | Written over twenty years ago , it is admittedly a tentative sketch put on in the hope that some English historians and archaeologists would set to work in a more expert way and on a bigger scale . |
| 5 | His starting point can be anything from a scale drawing prepared by a draughtsman to a crude sketch , but as long as the room dimensions are correct Andrew can set to work in the Sheffield studio . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , undaunted Board staff set to work with valuable assistance from the Bronte Parsonage Museum and considerable local skill and talent . |
| 7 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |
| 8 | I set to work with the pick . |
| 9 | I get back to my office and set to work with the phone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ More money , more money ! ’ he demands , and clever minds set to work at his behest , the computers shift and change a little all over the world , and presently his bank balance shows another nought ; and , so that that nought should be there , somewhere in the undeveloped world another ten backs break needlessly . |
| 12 | Leonora snapped , then set to work at top speed while Penry was out chopping driftwood . |
| 13 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 14 | She settled everybody round the fire , took them hot drinks , and then set to work on her sweet-hearted retriever with a comb , during which she got her guests into perspective . |
| 15 | In the gents loo , an old guy sits doing the Daily Record crossword while the red-faced clubbers wearing a mixture of sportsgear , the odd Happy Mondays G-Mex sweatshirt , ponchos and flares set to work on their hair with free gel and mousse . |
| 16 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 17 | I took my make-up out of my bag , leaned close to the mirror and set to work on my face . |
| 18 | Daniel Hersheson then set to work on Pamela 's hair , cutting it into a more tailored and modern style . |
| 19 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 20 | He glanced around , then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock . |
| 21 | When they had done her back , they turned her over and set to work on her front . |
| 22 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 23 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Minton took him upstairs to his studio , where his portrait of Nevile Wallis was in progress , and set to work on a small canvas . |
| 26 | She sat down and set to work on the files . |
| 27 | Vortigern consulted magicians who told him he should build a stronghold in Wales but as his workers set to work on a hill in Snowdonia their building materials sank into the earth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They were the Ostarbeiters , intelligent and educated , and set to work as labourers , made to wear a badge . |
| 30 | Chastened , they donned their protective aprons , and set to work in silence . |