Example sentences of "[pers pn] set about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefed comprehensively by my fastidious fiancee on ironing strategy — ‘ Never start from the front/make sure you give the cuffs a decent jet of steam … not like that , you chump ! ’ — I set about a pile of shirts , mainly cotton but one silk , and a range of trousers . |
| 2 | So I set about a solution which has led to healthy plants which remain where I want them — despite being planted in very high flow undergravel filters . |
| 3 | I set about the lump with the Woodcarver and soon discovered what it could and could not do . |
| 4 | With no option but courage or ignominious retreat , I set about the 4a first pitch — an intimidating looking crack breaking through the overhanging lower wall . |
| 5 | You will be able to tackle and succeed in almost anything provided you set about the problem in the right way . |
| 6 | The Isis was not a line-of-battle ship , but like the Adamant she acted as one in the battle of Camperdown in October 1797 , when she set about the much heavier Gelijkheid ( 64 guns ) , one of the eleven Dutch ships that were taken . |
| 7 | We set about a series of innovations that would give them access to that understanding , by means that were practicable within an already existing framework . |
| 8 | ‘ We set about a vigorous reconstruction programme supported by the ICI Group . |
| 9 | Retreating from press and other media distractions , they set about the search for the single . |
| 10 | Accordingly , they set about the task of reforming the religious and cultural life of the English localities with a vengeance . |
| 11 | They set about an extensive programme of repair and renovation of the complex and have so far successfully restored one of the Clutterbuck water wheels , as well as a Tangye Compound Steam Engine ( plus a portable boiler ) , that formerly powered stick making machinery . |
| 12 | The methods Souness used when he set about a struggling Rangers , turned them around and picked up Championships and cups , prepared us for what was on the way at Anfield . |
| 13 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |
| 14 | Having milked his seventy-five Friesian cows , he set about the main business of the day , loading Norton 's Coin , one of only three horses he trained under permit on his farm , into the horsebox , then taking the wheel to drive his stable star to Cheltenham . |
| 15 | Ramsay did not exactly cheer , but Will noticed a certain lightening in his brother 's step thereafter , as he set about the business of summoning men . |
| 16 | Upon his accession he set about the introduction of the Norman feudal system by dividing his realm up into feus or fiefs , and gave monopolistic trade charters to many towns on whose loyalty he henceforth hoped to rely . |
| 17 | On the contrary , he set about the formation of the National government with an enthusiasm which showed that the adventure was highly agreeable to him . |
| 18 | Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism . |
| 19 | Following demobilisation , he set about the rehabilitation of the Trinidad Workingmen 's Association , whilst at the same time getting himself elected as mayor of Port of Spain . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern . |