What is "go about"

Usage examples of "go about".

We had no idea how to go about launching a foundation, or how to raise money, but by the end of the lunch we came up with the idea of staging a charity bicycle race around Austin.

I knew it wasn't the way to go about it but I wasn't in the mood for jive.

This was the holiday about which Tolkien later wrote: There was a curious local character, an old man who used to go about swapping gossip and weather-wisdom and such like.

I was to go about the wooing of Mademoiselle de Lavedan as I chose.

So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.

Seeing therefore he did nothing, but by Preaching, and Miracles go about to prove himselfe to be that Messiah, hee did therein nothing against their laws.

For, if this was the case, I would go about and tell my affairs to the whole world, if, upon that account, I should become a man of fidelity and honour.

And now the four gaping watchers in the stockade on the headland beheld the great ship creep forward under the rising cloud of smoke, her mainsail unfurled to increase her steering way, and go about close-hauled to bring her larboard guns to bear upon the unready fort.

And they that go about by disobedience, to doe no more than reform the Commonwealth, shall find they do thereby destroy it.

We go about among the people till we get the names of such a number that their annual subscriptions will meet the cost of the paper, which is little or big according to the largeness of its constituency.

As they were pulling away, the Admiral waving to them from the taffrail, they heard the shrill whistle of the bo'sun piping the hands to their stations, and before they had reached the Cinco Llagas, they beheld the Encarnacion go about under sail.