Example sentences of "[pron] set [pn reflx] [art] task " in BNC.

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1 Among those who set themselves the task of creating a hostel for orthodox children was Sybil Wulwick .
2 We set ourselves the task of uncovering the principles behind our feeling that certain stretches of language are meaningful and unified : that they have the quality of coherence .
3 They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques .
4 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 .
5 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 ’ .
6 Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order .
7 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 .
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