Sentence examples for about to set down from inspiring English sources

Here, I can hope to escape such long-term embarrassment by claiming that the thoughts I am about to set down are transitory, impressionistic and I may contradict them next week.

On the hourlong car ride from their apartment on West 85th Street in Manhattan to check out what was then considered a radical housing development, he said, the couple talked about their eagerness to set down roots and start a family.

Hollywood, for the most part, is waiting earnestly for the Thomas Committee to define Communism, to name at least one film it considers Communistic, and to set down rules about what should and should not be thought about by a good American.

And in this repetition, this circularity, there is a sense of completeness that says every bit as much about love as Zariello's attempts to set down its measurements.

Their real purpose is to set down clear guidelines about what is acceptable and what is not.Mr Blair is right that things are changing.

Maughan points out that it is very much up to the PI to set down some ground rules about ordering supplies and fair use of equipment.

"I caught him and then I was about to set him down gently, kind of like when Lois Lane is caught by Superman and then he kind of takes her down and sets her down so she can land on her feet," Bennett added.

At the foundation, officials are confident that Ando's new building - itself reminiscent of an ocean-cruiser about to set sail down the river - will finally secure the area's revival.

To seize death in the making was another matter: the camera's reach remained limited as long as it had to be lugged about, set down, steadied.

The whole crew was about to decamp to the larger set down in Mexico and everyone was in high spirits; the mood festive.

Five weeks of working up north was nearly over and the whole crew was about to decamp to the larger set down in Mexico.