Sentence examples for she sets to from inspiring English sources

She sets to work, listening "for the reassuring sound of her men coming home...the solid clunk of well-made parts swinging firmly shut".

She is warm, but extremely serious: clever, clear, the kind of person who thinks about a question before she sets to answering it, and is sometimes, as a result, visibly amazed by her own responses.

Some of the sex acts I found a little puzzling (I had to look them up), but she sets to work, with the available male resources as enablers — her lab buddy, Cameron Johnny Simmonss), a sweetly romantic, unexciting fellow, and Rusty Waters Scott Porterr, from "Friday Night Lights"), a college boy working as a lifeguard for the summer, invariably shirtless, a golden fantasy figure.

In a nearly silent sequence that parallels the opening of "The Philadelphia Story," she sets to work: fielding squares of toast as they sail through the air, gingerly tapping down an obscenely drooling waffle-maker, hitching up a shoulder strap with a colander — she's part Pavlova and part Stan Laurel.

At one point in "The Gleaners and I," Varda includes a clip captured by her camcorder when she had thought it was turned off: the jiggling dance made by her dangling lens cap, which she sets to an exuberant jazz riff.

"People have been making cheese here for the last 300 years," she explains as she sets to work on the mountain of cheeses stacked around her. "We're just pleased to carry on that tradition.

She set to work at once, in between acting jobs.

So she set to work, editing the furniture her client already had and adding other pieces.

She set to painting on a monumental scale, as many as three gouaches a day.

So, having limbered up by practising on a copy of the García Martínez painting, she set to work.

She set to work, flattening, smoothing and burnishing, then nailing the ennobled metal onto a variety of surfaces.