Example sentences of "[pron] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone is short of cash , and nobody set on the goal of having a station could argue with the idea of combining the efforts . |
| 2 | We were told that she set to work ‘ editing ’ the crazed philosopher 's work to make it more Nazi , and that Elisabeth had a strong and malign influence on the growth of National Socialism . |
| 3 | At once , she set to work and made such a remarkable copy of a Michelangelo that she was sent , when ten years old , to the Dublin School of Art where she learnt drawing and sculpture . |
| 4 | Now that the party was over , she set to work to remove all traces of it , because she could n't bear the aftermath of revelry . |
| 5 | Anyhow , she set to and found the time to make one for me , even though she had such a large family to care for . |
| 6 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 7 | Once they had cleared away and washed the dinner pots , she set to and washed Martha 's hair . |
| 8 | She set to work on Emily 's shoes , pride insisted that she finish the job she had begun even if she was never paid for it . |
| 9 | He agreed , and she set to work . |
| 10 | She sighed to herself and smiled to herself at Auntie 's mistake ; and then she set to work with Auntie 's sewing-machine . |
| 11 | She set to work with a vengeance , losing herself in the difficult task of making all those fiercely vivid images of him that were swirling around in her head tangible . |
| 12 | Instead , she set to stubbornly work her way through in alphabetical order , so that before long she had a small pile of pink order slips in front of her . |
| 13 | Then she set to with bleach and scouring pads to render the vases spotless . |
| 14 | Walking back to Rebecca 's cluttered desk , she set to work . |
| 15 | However , he was quite correct in assuming she would not contact the person who had phoned her until she was sure he was well out of the way , so she set to work in sorting out the various tasks to be done . |
| 16 | Muttering beneath her breath she set to the preparation of the tall boy 's breakfast . |
| 17 | Hoping Penry Vaughan would n't mind if she borrowed his hairbrush , she set to work . |
| 18 | oh she set to work and she cleared the she had , what did she have ? , meat , er chicken , potatoes , cauliflower , Yorkshire pudding |
| 19 | A mother in Craig and Glendinning 's study described the different standards of dress which she set within her family : |
| 20 | He acknowledged the plate she set within his reach with an incomprehensible grunt , which might or might not have been one of thanks . |
| 21 | Fen made no comment about the meal she set before him , but , she noticed , he ate with relish and from time to time she felt him observing her contemplatively . |
| 22 | Jenny came in with some flowers from the garden which she set in small posy bowls down the centre and James took the pink lustre candlesticks from the mantelpiece and set them among the flowers . |
| 23 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 24 | In such conditions , concentrated fire from the archers on the wings wrought such havoc that the French could provide but little resistance to those English who set upon them . |
| 25 | This is one of those channels where it 's hard to find a bad sound ; everything set on 5 is about right , full-bodied but still jangly , exactly how it should be . |
| 26 | And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project . |
| 27 | To test this claim we set on John . |
| 28 | this one set of social relations , of production , accounts for the relations in other spheres of social life within each locality or region , that politics and ideology are essentially explicable in terms of economic change and restructuring . |
| 29 | The fuel system had three different sized pipes all leaking and one set to self destruct on the hot manifold as were two of the water pipes to the rear heater . |
| 30 | He dreams of a mass consumer market , with one set per person rather than today 's one per home . |