Example sentences of "he set [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had discovered a method of intercepting springs , and , using stone to seal his drains , he and others like him set about spreading the gospel of effective underdrainage . |
| 2 | The loudspeaker radio system he set up became a great success and became a model for others throughout Argentina . |
| 3 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |
| 4 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 5 | She was Tim 's first choice when he set out to find the perfect engagement ring for the woman he loved . |
| 6 | When Eligius became bishop of Noyon in 641 he set out to find the bones of the martyr Quentin . |
| 7 | Not only did he find this crude form of seal unsuitable for his normal still wines , but when he began to produce sparkling wines the total inadequacy of wooden pegs for imprisoning the carbonic gas was such that he set out to discover a more efficient seal . |
| 8 | With John Hanning Speke he set out to discover the source of the Nile . |
| 9 | He set out to launch a North American colony to which Catholics could retreat to avoid the discrimination that seemed to have become unalterably established in England and in New England . |
| 10 | Unable to hold the stage in any other way he set out to organise a ‘ popular demand ’ for immediate independence without trusteeship , and having succeeded beyond his expectations now finds himself in the position of having to deliver the goods or recede from the front of the political stage and lose all hope of fulfilling his personal ambitions . |
| 11 | He hardly even noticed the complaints of the people that he shouldered aside , or from the cars that were forced to stop as he set out to cross the street . |
| 12 | Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic . |
| 13 | He followed this with a traditional French bakery in Oxford while he set about converting a 15th century Cotswold manor house into Le Manoir , which opened in 1984 and has since become one of Britain 's most exclusive restaurants . |
| 14 | Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck . |
| 15 | It was on this basis that he set about creating a new monastic life with all the force and organizational ability which he possessed . |
| 16 | More important , he set about gathering the Wordsworths into the Quantock fold , hastening a visit which must in any case have been intended for the near future . |
| 17 | John Welsby was appointed as the first Director , Provincial , and he set about evaluating the sources of the sector 's costs . |
| 18 | Wasting neither time nor mercy he set about dispersing the riding families . |
| 19 | After many disputes involving privileges and revenues of the See , he set about repairing the buildings in the diocese . |
| 20 | He set about using the time to run a complete check on his detection and recording equipment . |
| 21 | I asked Rooney how he set about completing a picture . |
| 22 | With a trembling hand he set about dialling the telephone number . |
| 23 | By August , Crawford was well established in Dunedin , having found board in the seaside suburb of St Clair , and he set about grooming a training squad from which the Otago team for the coming season would be selected . |
| 24 | Their personal contact goes back to June 1991 , when Yeltsin , newly elected Russian president but under threat from the Soviet army and KGB , was seeking the support of reliable elements as he set about forming a government . |
| 25 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 26 | I asked Blamey how he set about painting a portrait . |
| 27 | With the same energy which had prompted him in his surveying , he set about recording the topography of the Lake District , from early morning till dusk . |
| 28 | He set about reshaping the Canterbury community with great vigour and clarity of aim . |
| 29 | Most importantly , he set about resolving the problem of transporting his troops to the mainland . |
| 30 | He sounded people out and found the responses favourable , so he set about to prepare the finest survey to have been carried out on Manchester up to that time and indeed up to the time of Charles Roeder 's article , late in the 19th century . |