Example sentences of "set to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | So — unless you want baked beans ( and I know I do n't ) let's set to work . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 3 | And he would set to work to cover reams of paper with still lifes , boats , fishermen , figures , birds and clouds , completing a sixty-foot decoration in one day . |
| 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 . |