Example sentences of "[been] set to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam did not answer her prayers because he was not near enough to hear them , having been set to work on the floor above , sweeping up . |
| 2 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 3 | This was because a slogan — which he himself coined — had been set to music and became a hit tune of the period : ‘ I-Scream , you scream . |
| 4 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 5 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 6 | Cell B2 has been set to percentage format with two digits after the decimal place and B4 has been set to currency . |
| 7 | Cell B2 has been set to percentage format with two digits after the decimal place and B4 has been set to currency . |
| 8 | But not one of them had made her feel as if a candle had been set to kindling within her . |