Example sentences of "[pron] set about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a lie-down to recover I set about this mammoth task and after much intensified opening of envelopes the winner of 30 , yes THIRTY Hi-Tec games became clear . |
| 2 | Lord God , as we set about this work , we ask that you will lead us step by step . |
| 3 | Undaunted they set about flinging ropes over and , one by one , clambered across the yawning gap . |
| 4 | They set about this task with great enthusiasm . |
| 5 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 6 | When that failed , he set about misleading man 's understanding of Jesus . |