Example sentences of "set to work " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 2 | The opening lead of a small trump did not solve any problems and declarer set to work to eliminate hearts and draw trumps . |
| 3 | He set to work steadily on replacing the panes of the side windows . |
| 4 | Sampson , however , insisted that Lewis should put his name to anything which was written , and in the course of 1939 he set to work . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thumbing the bullets out on to a sheet of old newspaper , he set to work with his knife . |
| 7 | Mrs Barnes set to work immediately and , a few minutes later , the child was born . |
| 8 | But Sally and Peter are nothing if not resourceful , and with the aid of some good friends in the building and design world they soon set to work to transform this town house into a haven of beauty and calm . |
| 9 | Winstanley set to work with a fantastic design , eighty feet high , the lower part to be of stonework covered with metal , the upper part of wood . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yorkshire Television made good the shortfall and the Electricity Board set to work . |
| 13 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Jerome was pleasuring her mouth , while Clement set to work between her hands . |
| 15 | While her hair was set in large heated rollers to give fullness , Lizzie set to work on Angela 's make-up . |
| 16 | She took off the wire that held the cork in position and put the bottle beside her , then she set to work . |
| 17 | Once Clifford had departed Palmer set to work to wring from the central government a series of concessions which , had he succeeded in obtaining them all , would have converted Northern Nigeria into a separate state . |
| 18 | Beauty therapist Suzanne set to work to reduce the Santa spread by preparing Frigi-Thalgo . |
| 19 | As soon as he got there he set to work . |
| 20 | Then he set to work laying siege to her with letters . |
| 21 | He soon set to work making drawings of the tiny fellow , and of the cradle . |
| 22 | Carey set to work clearing the jungle and erecting a little bamboo hut with fences to keep out tigers ! |
| 23 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 24 | The Hairflair team set to work straight away . |
| 25 | He set to work straight away to make a stronger plastic . |
| 26 | Back in Milan , Wolfgang set to work on his new opera Mitridate , rè di Ponto ( Mitridate , King of Pontus ) , based on a play by Racine . |
| 27 | Using sheet metal cutters the crew set to work and a minute later a rather shocked Sam was free . |
| 28 | The five vessels that would soon make history — the Vittoria ( now generally known as the Victoria ) , the Trinidada ( the Trinidad ) , the San Antonio , the Concepción and the Santiago — were small and , until Magellan set to work on them , hopelessly unseaworthy . |
| 29 | When Will had disappeared from sight , Hari set to work on the slippers once more , they must be just so because Emily Grenfell was a good customer if a very exacting one . |
| 30 | 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 . |