Example sentences of "set himself [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor can the counsellor set himself the task of dealing exclusively with one area . |
| 2 | York Benedictine monk Cyril Brooks has set himself a 100-mile a day challenge to cycle around Britain to raise money for a church convention . |
| 3 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 4 | In retirement he had set himself the task of making a replica Tomkin long-case clock . |
| 5 | He has set himself the task of trying to discuss the agenda Labour needs to develop over the next two decades on issues such as training , education and poverty . |
| 6 | Peirce had set himself the task of methodically classifying , and looking for applications of , the n-dimensional systems for all |
| 7 | Tallis sets himself the task of showing that much of the structuralist and poststructuralist enterprise is based on a misreading of Saussure . |
| 8 | There are various entries in Green 's diaries setting himself a timetable for the completion of series of plates for his publications : - |
| 9 | So he set himself an exercise . |
| 10 | When he arrived in America , Weill did not automatically expect New York ears to take to the music of the Berlin avant-garde in which he had played so prominent a part : instead he set himself the task of learning to write music with an American accent . |
| 11 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 12 | Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order . |
| 13 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |
| 14 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |