Sentence examples for set him to from inspiring English sources

Prison officials noted his abilities and set him to work.

That set him to thinking about oil, which triggered thoughts about Henry Ford.

In east London, he tracked down an artisan printer with a 1959 Heidelberg letterpress and set him to work.

Zocchi's patron, a rich merchant named Andrea Gerini, set him to work drawing streets, squares, churches & palaces of Florence, and the villas of the surrounding countryside.

The natural elements and the weather set him to wide-awake dreaming on his biggest theme: the capacity of fiction to encompass, and to master, experiences of reality.

By the time the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the KGB had plucked him from the ranks and set him to work as an operative detective.

The death of a friend sets him to drinking & weeping for weeks.

He never refuses a request for a loan; and the sorrow that overtakes him at the death of a friend sets him to drinking and weeping for weeks.

The Mets' off-season acquisition of Chin-lung Hu from the Los Angeles Dodgers seemed to set him up to be the team's primary utility infielder.

Rory McIlroy, however, gave a shot back to stub his momentum and set him back to two under.

That would set him up to run for the presidency in 2017, if he wants to.