Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] set about " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may see then how I set about developing … ’ |
| 2 | The introduction and the section on " small group work " in Chapter 3 shows how we set about planning the early stages of a drama lesson . |
| 3 | Quite how they set about it I do not know , but it was an unusual and , in the circumstances , praiseworthy initiative . |
| 4 | I asked Rooney how he set about completing a picture . |
| 5 | I asked Blamey how he set about painting a portrait . |
| 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 | 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 . |