Example sentences of "set himself [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment . |
| 2 | SMALL , West Ham 's forgotten striker , has set himself a New Year deadline to force his way back into Billy Bonds 's plans . |
| 3 | ALAN CORK , aiming for his 150th League goal this weekend , has set himself a new target — to join the 200 Club . |
| 4 | WITH the prospect of a five-year term , John Major has set himself a formidable agenda . |
| 5 | Stewart ( 31 ) will join the Glens this week and has set himself a three week target to be ready for first team action . |
| 6 | GARY SPEED has set himself a double task — to resurrect the fortunes of club and country . |
| 7 | SOCCER ace Gary Lineker has set himself a tough new goal — learning Japanese in just six months . |
| 8 | Thanks to whoever it was , Baldwin by the spring of 1924 was making surprisingly good progress toward the political objectives which he had set himself the previous autumn . |
| 9 | In preparing for his reconnaissance of Rhodes , the Commander had set himself an exacting routine of training , with long-distance swimming and other exercises hardening his physical endurance : habits of training his men would later find exhausting almost to the point of mutiny . |
| 10 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 11 | Prince sets himself a new goal |
| 12 | The author sets himself the lofty task of presenting the reader with a balanced description of the entire field through fermentation , microbial metabolism , copolymer composition control , to solid state physical properties and biodegradation . |
| 13 | But Francis has replied by setting himself a new goal — carrying on past 40 . |
| 14 | Not only was he engaged in his publishing work , his meetings of the Moot and the Chandos Group , and his visits to Oxford for the Christian News Letter , but also he set himself a punishing schedule of conferences , talks and lectures ; in the first week of January 1941 , for example , there were six full days of such conferences . |
| 15 | Trotsky set himself the dangerous task of explaining how not only the state but also the Party had come to be excessively bureaucratized . |
| 16 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |