Sentence examples for Set about the task from inspiring English sources

I had an inkling it wouldn't be terribly difficult to replicate these popular snacks, so we set about the task.

Eventually Sony's engineers, no doubt sighing with resignation, set about the task of designing an Aibo knockoff of their own.

In the workroom, the seamstresses don their white chore coats and set about the task of fabricating Woodcock's designs.

In the stale warmth of the oven, Miss Frye set about the task of bathing her baby girl.

He set about the task with relish, discarding many candidates and earning the nickname "the Shipley Strangler".

The survivors reorganized into two brigades; Tom took charge of the first and set about the task of getting home.

So with Marie's blessing, we began The Downing Street Project and set about the tasks of finding, training and mentoring women to enter Parliament.

The enthusiasm with which Hisham sets about the task of answering this is touching.

When she has gathered together a chirpy band of five-, six- and seven-year-olds, she solemnly sets about the task of teaching.

The book, for all the considerable beauties of its prose, never quite relinquishes an air of instruction, as Hickman sets about the task of reminding the senator who he really is.

It's a measure of the remarkable lengths to which she has gone to avoid being pigeonholed, of the concentration and persistence with which she sets about the task of becoming her characters, that seeing her as a frantic, lovestruck 60-something seems not in the least unlikely.