Example sentences of "set [adv prt] [v-ing] the [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In my opinion , they should stop hounding law-abiding citizens and set about catching the obvious culprits , whoever they are . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh Christ , oh Christ , ’ I mouthed in a panic and first set about getting the sticking plaster off him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the kitchen , which had now become familiar to him , Joe set about making the two cups of cocoa . |
| 9 | As the Saturday evening went on and everyone made use of the food and drinks on site , the Leisure Promotions team set about arranging the well-known Night Event . |
| 10 | In the autumn of 1936 Franco set about preparing the political foundations of his " New State " , in anticipation of what he thought was his imminent entry to Madrid . |
| 11 | In 1770/71 Lagrange set about analysing the various methods then known for dealing with the general equations of degrees 2 , 3 , 4 and he found that they all depended on the same general principle ( see Section 5.2 ) . |