Sentence examples for he set about to from inspiring English sources
And so he set about to do so.
He set about to verify the signature by calling the Williamsburgh Bank.
A master of the verbal smokescreen, he set about to be his own mythographer.
Through trial and error, he set about to develop a plant more suited to North Americans' gardening needs.
As the war with Denmark was as good as lost, he set about to end it on the best possible terms.
Then he set about to reproduce his friend's design in its entirety — the same jet, the same reconfiguration, the same doors between the cabins.
But it is part of Wittgenstein's genius that he sets about to dismantle precisely this very myth, a myth about the nature and epistemological priority of interiority that has been at the heart of western thought since Augustine.
"I know he wanted me to love fishing and hunting, and I believe that he deliberately set about to make me want to do it on my own initiative," he wrote.
He courageously set about to reform Mexico, despite growing opposition from the party dinosaurs who mocked him as a weakling.
Mr. Pitt, whose own critics within the agency say he, too, is unapproachable and relies primarily on a tight coterie of political and legal advisers, insists that he has set about to change the culture of the agency.
He intuited answers and then set about to prove them.
