Sentence examples for setting about the task from inspiring English sources

One afternoon, after waking up to an especially brutal hangover, I stumbled into the kitchen searching for a glass of water and found him setting about the task of preparing tuna salad.

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.

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.

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

Signorelli set about the task, with an updated plan and indefatigable determination, and completed the frescoes by 1504.

The trust has approved my proposed actions and set some testing requirements of its own, and we immediately set about the task of implementing them.