Example sentences of "[vb past] set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he had set to work himself , though rather clumsily , he was still weak from his illness . |
| 2 | Two pieces of steel had been fixed in vices and the two men had set to work on them simultaneously . |
| 3 | Only after he had set to work , at Halley 's urging , on the tract that eventually became the first book of the Principia did Newton abandon vortices and envisage attractive — and repulsive — forces in central bodies . |
| 4 | Haled in to help salvage the church 's treasures , he had set to and done whatever was asked of him without curiosity , but there was nothing amiss with his sharp and assured memory , once he understood what was being asked of him . |
| 5 | She had set to with a will , but had been dismayed to discover that her appetite did not match it . |