Example sentences of "set about [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period , they also set about rubbishing the British proposals for competing currencies , and for the hard ecu . |
| 2 | He set about using the time to run a complete check on his detection and recording equipment . |
| 3 | Miss Fogerty hung up her tweed coat and her brown felt hat behind the classroom door , and set about unlocking the cupboards . |
| 4 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 5 | Wasting neither time nor mercy he set about dispersing the riding families . |
| 6 | The wealth of Sir Herbert Leon , who had bought the Bletchley estate in 1883 and who set about transforming the house , was trumpeted loudly in the griffin statues on either side of the main entrance , in the exterior ‘ refinements ’ , in the florid plasterwork of friezes and ceilings , and in the opulent oak panelling and heavily elaborate carved details of the interior . |
| 7 | He had discovered a method of intercepting springs , and , using stone to seal his drains , he and others like him set about spreading the gospel of effective underdrainage . |
| 8 | He left her and set about smoothing the sheets of her bed with touchingly serious clumsiness . |
| 9 | While military , Falangist and Carlist units , fanning out from rebel-held Seville , Cádiz , Córdoba and Granada , set about conquering the rest of Andalusia , Franco 's Army of Africa and its accompanying Moorish troops pushed rapidly northwards from their southern beach-head into Extremadura and towards Madrid . |
| 10 | In 1985 the Bank set about reorganizing the market for government debt . |
| 11 | Her heart sank at the sight of fresh blood on the bandage , but she set about unwinding the strip of linen , praying that she had not opened up fitzAlan 's wound too badly in her frantic efforts to escape . |
| 12 | After parliament dissolved , Gaunt set about recovering the initiative and control by adopting a stridently popular antipapal and anticlerical tone : he employed Wyclif to denounce the papacy , the wealth of prelates and clergy , and the independence of the church . |
| 13 | Betty was wearing a dressing-gown , a circumstance which served further to upset Lydia , who nevertheless painted her mouth bright red to facilitate her smile and set about connecting the bottled gas to the stove . |
| 14 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 15 | In my opinion , they should stop hounding law-abiding citizens and set about catching the obvious culprits , whoever they are . |
| 16 | It was full of trees and boulders , but with a team of local men Jack set about getting the field cleared of rocks , fences and walls . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh Christ , oh Christ , ’ I mouthed in a panic and first set about getting the sticking plaster off him . |
| 18 | The new Labour Government who will be elected five weeks tomorrow will immediately sign the social charter and set about getting the social chapter firmly into the treaty itself . |
| 19 | But as Chapman set about maintaining the momentum of his Northampton team after their 1909 Championship , and went in search of new players , transfer fees were not a problem . |
| 20 | She had an almost Germanic regard for order , and set about repairing the house , the stables , the outbuildings and conservatory with the willing and cheerful help of a small , dedicated band of local people , with whom she could relax and be herself , without putting up defences as she 'd had to do with the false Pyglings . |
| 21 | After many disputes involving privileges and revenues of the See , he set about repairing the buildings in the diocese . |
| 22 | In view of the deeply felt resentment at the reign of Bayezid I on the part of at least the more pious elements of the state , it seems not impossible that Murad II ( 1421–51 ) who , alter Mehmed I ( 1413–21 ) , set about re-establishing the integrity and order of the Ottoman state , decided to provide an answer to the critics of the secular state by the creation of an office to represent the spiritual authority of the seriat , an office , moreover , free from the taint that had come to affect the members of the ulema associated with the state service . |
| 23 | Broomhead shook his head in resigned disbelief and set about installing the gramophone in its housing . |
| 24 | A new four-strong Committee ( a continuation of the war-time practice ) , was ‘ appointed ’ and set about appraising the Club 's affairs , and supporting the argument of spending into success … |
| 25 | I saw in publishing a very nice example of that , not the word processing , but at John Wylies , who are a very big scientific publishers in Chichester , where they had a computer system which the editors — he 's the person who deals with the author , puts the book together — set about ordering the book ; the orders and that information went into the computer , when the thing was printed it went into the warehouse and the computer then organised the storage of all of these things in the warehouse . |
| 26 | I saw in publishing a very nice example of that — not the word processing — but at John Wylies , who are very big scientific publishers in Chichester , where they had a computer system which the editor — he 's the person who deals with the author , puts the book together — set about ordering the book , the orders and that information went into the computer , when the thing was printed it went into the warehouse and the computer then organised the storage of all of these things in the warehouse . |
| 27 | Travis set about building the fire before Paige could offer to do so . |
| 28 | He built his first car by the time he was 18. in 1909 he took over the Molsheim factory near Strasbourg and set about developing the greatest racing car in the world . |
| 29 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 30 | Of the Twelve , the then West Germany was the most crucially affected , and its government set about creating the conditions for the unification of the two Germanies . |