Sentence examples for I set about it from inspiring English sources

I set about it, ignoring her cries for attention.

It sounded like one of the more interesting parlour games you could play, and a fine excuse to fire some of these lovely, weird and not-as-widely-read-as-you'd-think poems out into the world again – so I set about it with some enthusiasm, determined to marry off the right books to the right poems.

For the next 20 years, I set about learning everything I could.

STILL, it was the copier aspect of the machine that had first enthralled me, and I set about testing it immediately.

I set about changing it by getting her to visualise that the swim would feel easy and that she was gliding through the water and overtaking her rivals.

For this assignment I happened to have a 3D-printed arm in a box in my room (what?), so I set about programming it to crawl forward in a straight line.

The work isn't going to disappear unless I set about making it go away.

I knew the way it worked on the pop side, so I set about to learn how it worked on the classical side.

"Mark their books properly" is vastly too unsophisticated an understanding of a key concept in modern education to get away with, so I set about finding out what it is.

I wanted to prove them wrong so I took the part-time option and I set about showing them I wanted it so badly.

As she put it: 'I set about keeping my resolve because I will not quarrel with myself, & because I shall give Wm pleasure by it when he comes home again.' Wilson quotes Ernest de Selincourt's description of Dorothy as 'probably the most remarkable and the most distinguished of English prose writers who never wrote a line for the general public'.