Sentence examples for setting down to from inspiring English sources

In 1945 Watkins records that he published a novel, before setting down to political writing.

Assemble your toppings in small bowls as it heats, just as a painter might prepare his palette before setting down to make art.

Gilbert could have dealt with Dyer's books as a necessary afterthought, tossing off some titles and quickly setting down to the real business of regret and death and endlessly messy human relationships.

But no matter the meal, you will eat it uncomfortably, in a tough concrete dining room that juts off a large bar crowded with tall tables, in what is unmistakably an institutional setting, down to the space on the check where you can sign the bill to your room.

For comparison with data from Latch et al. (2009), we parsed the data set down to 545 base pairs (GenBank submission KM061069 KM061151).

He came back from a set down to take that one.

4.26pm: Novak Djokovic leads 4-1 in the second set, but is one set down to Rafael Nadal.

(The waiters had turned most of the television sets down to pantomime dumb-show).

In the semifinals, he came back from a set down to beat Nadal.

Henman came back from a set down to beat South Korea's Hyung Taik Lee, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

For me the key to her Wimbledon came all the way back in the third round when she found herself a set down to Venus Williams.