Example sentences of "set about [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Peugeot set about its intended aims of winning Le Mans and the Sportscar World Championship with great resolve and professionalism ’ |
| 2 | With the arrival , in 1984 , of the present rector , Canon Gerald Pearce , who set about its renovation with the aid of the YTS and other helpers , it is now a useful little hall for church meetings , play groups etc . |
| 3 | As soon as Topaz returned to Stone Towers she set about its renovation . |
| 4 | I retraced the footsteps of the young victim as she set about her ill-fated round that morning . |
| 5 | She set about her present Chelsea garden three years ago , keeping the structure of one already there . |
| 6 | By 5 am the guns of both batteries had been spiked as planned , by having iron wedges driven into their touch-holes , and the two groups had met as agreed and set about their work of destruction . |
| 7 | In 1925 , they bought the ruinous Dartington Hall , its acres of woods and two farms in a state of rapid decline , and set about their own experiment in rural reconstruction . |
| 8 | Thee Hypnotics , cheerful in the face of technical adversity , are altogether more realistic about the need to earn an audience 's attention , and set about their task with vigorous enthusiasm . |
| 9 | Thee Hypnotics , cheerful in the face of technical adversity , are altogether more realistic about the need to earn an audience 's attention , and set about their task with vigorous enthusiasm . |
| 10 | Angrily , as if he blamed them for his loneliness , he set about his fri ed eggs and bacon . |
| 11 | Once this was done he set about his task , quite happy to be in no other company that that of the two greys . |
| 12 | We walked over to the practice putting green and set about his putting . |
| 13 | With a membership of less than 200 , few of noble lineage , and with the whiff of Regency gambling , that mainspring of London cricket , still leaving a dubious odour , Aislabie set about his task with enormous energy . |
| 14 | in Rome and set about his Latin tract |
| 15 | I said it ! ’ and set about his colleagues with his fists . |