Example sentences of "he set himself [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So he set himself an exercise . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ’ . |
4 | Warnie was a natural historian , and he set himself the task of putting all these documents into chronological order . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |