set to work造句

Drills were set to work without intermission.

I desire you to set to work at once.

They set to work accumulating a huge mass of data.

She rolled [turned] up her sleeves and set to work.

We can set to work now if you wish.

We went out to buy more wood, and he set to work at once.

They set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident.

I had been there little more than a week when I set to work in earnest.

On his return from the countryside he set to work in earnest.

A ploughman yoked2 his ox and his ass3 together, and set to work to plough his field.

Back at squadron headquarters, the six unloaded the supplies in a big industrial kitchen and set to work.

The birds did not understand Snowball's long words, but they accepted his explanation, and all the humbler animals set to work to learn the new maxim by heart.

The mouse set to work at once, biting with his sharp little teeth at the heavy ropes that held the lion. Soon the lion was free.

No doubt of it; it is nothing serious; he is nervous, his spirits must be kept up. Come, set to work.

The mouse set to work at once, biting with his sharp little teeth at the heavy ropes that held the lion.

Finally, you have despair all over again when you get the stuff home and set to work with the Allen key.

The English have given themselves a shock. They must now set to work making their society better. They have no choice.

So they set to work, and to date have scanned upwards of 15 million volumes, the texts of which reside on their server farms, ready to be called up by a simple web search.

Haskins set to work and in a couple of hours brought a sheet of typewritten paper to the desk; it was a two-hundred word story about some disease that had broken out among the horses.

For a long time I brooded over the idea of making a canoe of the trunk of a tree, as the Indians do, and at last set to work at the task.