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"set about doing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Generally, it is used to indicate that someone is beginning to act in order to achieve a certain result. For example: "We set about doing our chores, determined to get them done quickly."
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That is what I have set about doing.
McClellan immediately set about doing what he did best: preparing masses of men to fight.
And that's precisely what Wednesday and her fellow Native Americans set about doing.
"It worked". It certainly did, as Bradford immediately set about doing to Northampton what Swansea had done to them, establishing their superiority from the outset.
It certainly did, as Bradford immediately set about doing to Northampton what Swansea had done to them, establishing their superiority from the outset.
Extraordinary to look at and bloody painful to pee through!" One of the things Evans set about doing, having returned to a healthy level of fitness, was to help set up a charity – Give a Kidney – to promote altruistic living kidney donation.
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If popular parties are to survive their founders they need more conventional structures.Ms Le Pen who, like Mr Wilders, oozes confidence is setting about doing just that.
Once she sets about doing something, she does it.
In fact it would be best if she was uncanny when she sets about doing this.
Blaming himself, Miklós sets about doing things that might dull the pain.
Because once he's fired up about something, got his head around it and had a little swear, he then sets about doing something about it.
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