I instantly set about reading it from cover to cover.
My parents claim I taught myself to read, and set about reading everything within reach.
He learned the alphabet, upper and lower case, in two days, compiled his own spelling books, and set about reading the one book in the Tswana language, the Bible.
"My English teacher handed me a couple of his own books by Lowell and said, 'I think you might enjoy him.'" Lowell's poetry, says Jamison, "let me know that there was somebody out there who had contended with this awful force". She set about reading everything by a man who not only wrestled with mania and the exhaustion that follows but placed the battle dead center in his art.
When you get a feel for what the job is about and what's expected of an applicant, set about reading "between the lines", to uncover what's not openly stated.
I smelled a rat the instant I read the story so I set about investigating Mahmood's investigation.
"He insisted we were illegal whale hunters and set about reading us our rights in Peruvian".
He got the job and, sensing he could increase his income if he sold more wine, he set about teaching himself, reading everything he could and working in the restaurant's wine cellar.
Then she set about trying to read every book on that list, from Locke to Montesquieu, from Blackstone to Newton.
Zink also set about trying to read his first book, "Sailing Toward the Sunset," but Shats regarded that as "an impossible task": it was a difficult postmodern novel written in Hebrew, a language that Zink had barely begun learning.
Yesterday evening, a little lit up by the crescendo of the debate, I set to work: I procured two sheets of A3 paper, two red felt-tip pens, and set about colouring in a sign that read "IN".
