• First, he set to work fine-tuning the comic delivery of the actor Owain Arthur, a sweet-faced Welshman, who plays a failed skiffle player named Francis.

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  • First he made the Tesla roadster, an eco-friendly electric car for the ultra-rich speed-freak, then he set to work as CEO of a private space company.

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  • Then he set to work.

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  • He set to work, confident, funny, and instantly got heckled, a heckle that was followed by a collective audience intake of breath, for the heckler was Daniel Kitson, a rather shy, whimsical young comedian from Yorkshire who looks like a beardy cross between a fisherman and a geography teacher.

    NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing

  • Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.

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  • The attorney general has the right to select whomever he chooses to work in his department, and to set policy as he sees fit.

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  • Kamal deployed the programming skills he had garnered, and set to work, using his office hours to develop the software.

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  • Gemenis said the profile of the Golden Dawn voter -- revealed through the Choose4Greece website he jointly set up to help voters work out their political affiliation amid a welter of parties -- was typically male, aged under 50 and from a lower educational background.

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  • He never created a key pass, and obviously therefore got completely discredited for the work he did to set that chance up.

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  • When that didn't work, he set out to destroy him through espionage, propaganda, delaying tactics and corporate muscle.

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  • He posted his pickets and set the men to work.

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  • During his studies he decided to help seniors learn to work their computers: turn it on, set up email and the biggest request, send photos or write emails to their kids or grand kids.

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  • Despite having no press card or indeed legitimate reason for being there he continued to work on the project and it was this photograph that set the tone for what was to come.

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  • The minister said the discipline task group which he has set up would use the figures to inform their work.

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  • In 1993 paintings by a struggling, little-known 22-year-old, Jenny Saville, caught Saatchi's eye, and he set her up in a studio, paying her to work for a year making art for his gallery.

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  • Gwilym chose 'freedom' as a theme for his new work and went looking for poetry that he could set to music.

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  • He said the strategy set the direction for the whole of the public sector to work together more effectively and collaboratively to maximise their impact on securing new opportunities, jobs and investment to communities.

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  • Crawford may have set out to write a book about work, but the book he actually wrote is about consumption.

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  • He set them up in dingy apartment, took their passports, then took them to work at Imperial Nurseries in Granby, Connecticut.

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  • To prove the experiment would work in an isolated environment, he set up another "hole in the wall" computer in a village 300 miles away.

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  • He called on politicians and the public to set aside "narrow sectional interest" and work together to make India "a demonstrably better and safer place for women to live in".

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  • When time ran out, and Kallasvuo had to get to work, he was up 3--2 in the second set.

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  • Jack set out to be the best employee he could be, always striving to do excellent work, and believing that if he did his best, the company would take care of him.

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  • He knows it's a lot of work to prepare for a trip, set up and take down a campsite, and yet "there is nothing better than sitting by the fire actually conversing face to face with the people you are camping with instead of texting in a corner by yourself, " wrote McCollough, via e-mail.

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  • Previewing ideas he will set out in full with a speech on Tuesday to the independent Resolution Foundation - whose work is devoted to diagnosing the problems affecting low to middle income earners - Mr Boles proposes a philosophical shift that should guide the next round of spending cuts due for 2013 or 2014.

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  • Since the Cingular network is so fast (and the Causerie IM client can be set to check for messages as frequently as you like) he's able to receive messages from work in near-real time.

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  • He says the idea that CIA agents should be subjected to the same set of rules as the military will not work in the long term.

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  • He took voluntary retirement from his job in 2006 and set up an NGO - Public Cause Research Foundation - to work full time to promote transparency in government and to create awareness about the Right to Information movement.

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  • He has since been on holiday but a return to work with new employers now beckons, with the sale set to be completed on Wednesday July 1.

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  • But as Israel and Iraq look set to be on opposing sides in a second Gulf War, Dalal says he is doing all he can to work towards peace.

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