Example sentences of "[conj] set [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was very quick to observe anything abnormal and set to work to get some explanation … |
| 32 | Rose , Victorine , Thérèse and Léonie pulled up chairs to the kitchen table and set to . |
| 33 | She hustled Victorine and Madeleine from the kitchen , then tied on an apron and set to . |
| 34 | With no waste of time all the equipment was installed and set to work . |
| 35 | Chastened , they donned their protective aprons , and set to work in silence . |
| 36 | While fitzAlan hefted the grey 's hoof and set to work , she glanced about , absently patting Chalon 's velvety muzzle . |
| 37 | The person in charge of product development decided to carry out all the modifications simultaneously ( although not forced to by LIFESPAN ) , made a senior programmer the user associated with the DCs and instructed him to activate the DCs on the main package and set to work . |
| 38 | I get back to my office and set to work with the phone . |
| 39 | Sir John grinned his thanks , took his own pewter spoon from his wallet , drew his dagger and set to as if he had n't eaten for days . |
| 40 | They bought a set of plans , hired space at a boat builders ' yard and set to work . |
| 41 | Bluish second-hand car lots ; sagging bluish fences ; bluish Unitarian churches ; small bluish factories , some Odeon-fronted , some glassed and rectilinear , but set at odd bluish angles to their surroundings . |
| 42 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 43 | But set against this conditioned , non-autonomous female self are various images of a female self that would be authentic , that would transcend or shatter this conditioning . |
| 44 | He has this advantage , but set against it he has to accept that management charges and corporation tax will be charged against trust income . |
| 45 | The swarming lampreys consume not only dead or sickly fish but set upon otherwise healthy ones . |
| 46 | This may not seem much in terms of Hong Kong 's caseload of more tha 40,000 Vietnamese , but set in a historical context it is an achievement . |
| 47 | The figures are both shocking and tragic , but set in the context of 19th-century political convulsions in France they are relatively mild . |
| 48 | The Corn is Green is a kind of ‘ thirties Educating Rita , but set in the Welsh coalfields and without the frivolous distractions of student life . |
| 49 | The difference between Regency attitudes and those of the mid-Victorians to the houses of the poor can be focused in George Eliot 's Middlemarch , first published in 1871–2 , but set in 1829–32 . |