Example sentences of "sets to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain Stefanoni sets to work immediately , examining flanks , ears and tongues , and soon selects the five beasts required to feed five thousand multinational customers . |
| 2 | … Everywhere the fancy , unaided by earlier fancies , sets to work very busily in these fields . |
| 3 | SCALPEL poised , the plastic surgeon sets to work on the patient 's face . |
| 4 | Alan sets to work on a simple , single-layered bob by brushing hair through well with a Denman Traditional . |
| 5 | CHASTENED COGNOS SETS TO WORK PUTTING THE WHEELS BACK ON ITS WAGON |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He apologises for the mess and sets to work clearing books and bottles and brochures off the one cracked settee for us to sit on . |
| 8 | As Nick sets to work his wife Jate ( Niamh Cusack ) discovers that someone has committed a far more serious offence — but the witness wo n't talk . |
| 9 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |