Sentence examples for sets about the task from inspiring English sources

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

One woman sets about the task with the touching zest of Dickens' Mrs Gamp.

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.

Kate Prince is another choreographer-director who never loses sight of her audience's wish to be entertained, and The Mad Hatter's Tea Party sets about the task with riotous energy.

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.

As soon as it came into office, it set about the task of consolidating power.

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".

Nobody could claim that Hall does not set about the task of challenging that view with missionary zeal.