Example sentences of "[pron] set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without further ado , I set to work . |
| 2 | She taught me the basics : casting-on , how to knit and pearl , and I set to work . |
| 3 | Gritting my teeth , I set to the task removing only trace of red rust and finally the whole job was completed with a coat of de-watering oil . |
| 4 | I set to work with my little bag of magic potions and do you know what I discovered ? ’ |
| 5 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 6 | In a daze , I set to with the trowel . |
| 7 | A 1:50,000 flat sheet map of the area was quickly acquired and I set to work scouring the area for my standard size circles , using Gresford All Saints as a perimeter marker . |
| 8 | So I set to work learning Italian intensively , because I continued to feel , and increasingly felt , that anything that could help to keep Italy out of any war that might take place , ought to be done . |
| 9 | I set to work with the pick . |
| 10 | In the aftermath of the disaster , the rebuilding of London 's churches was entrusted to the brilliant young architect , Christopher Wren , who set to work almost immediately , and over the next few years completely transformed the ecclesiastical architecture of the capital . |
| 11 | When you have a course that works , you do n't sit back and watch the grass grow — you set to work to make it even better . |
| 12 | We set to work and produced the rally and it was terrific . |
| 13 | So we set to under our section corporal , Jimmy Brough , and slogged away until we had completed ten such excavations , wondering where the tents were that were to fill them . |
| 14 | The chairman was Sir John Newsom , and in 1966 we set to work . |
| 15 | We set to work on this with a will . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Meanwhile , having appealed to Leavis , we received from him almost by return a literary essay , and we set to work to write our own pieces . |
| 18 | I fetched the glasses , broke the seal and we set to . |
| 19 | It was only when Taggy found the key to this room , and I discovered it to be so beautiful , that we set to and cleaned it between us . ’ |
| 20 | They set to sea in boats and cruisers ; one newspaper even hired a Lear jet , which flew over the area day after day . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Apple pie , ’ he said , and they set to work . |
| 23 | Back in France , they set to work . |
| 24 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Energetic — and friendly whenever they came across her and Thomas — they set to work clearing it . |