What is "sets about"

Usage examples of "sets about".

Apparently sustained by the fact that anyone at all has swallowed his recentest whopper, he sets about to hatch another, clucking tongue at the compass and bedazzlement of those fabrications.

Vader sets about doing this by drugging Leia and using hypnotic suggestion, including conjuring up mental pain, to force it out of her.

Whenever a new differentiation is not matched by a new and equal integration, whenever there is negation without preservation, the result is pathology of one sort or another, a pathology that, if severe enough, evolution sets about to erase in earnest.

Of further interest is the coincidence that a critical split in mathematics resulted from work being done on infinite sets about that time.

Mrs Rika Ray sets about tidying up, removing the newspapers from the bed and the bottom sheet.

The brain is like a good lawyer: given any set of interests to defend, its sets about convincing the world of their moral and logical worth, regardless of whether they in fact have any of either.

Lizzie, unlike Harry Potter's distaff sidekick Hermione, promptly sets about doing what any real, redblooded teenager would do if she had magical powers: she becomes a maniacal consumer.

Instead, when she finally emerges from her bedroom the next morning, pale-faced and red-eyed, still wearing her beautiful party dress, insisting that she is all right, adamant that she doesnt want anything to eat or drink, my mother goes out to the garden she loves and sets about destroying it.

Kirk is taken prisoner by the female Romulan Commander (played wonderfully by Joanne Linville), who sets about wooing Mr.

The small child has not the necessary comprehension of time to structure it but simply sets about doing things which feel good, moment to moment.

There were half a score of sending and receiving sets about the room.

He is the type of the professional criminal who makes crime a business and sets about it methodically and persistently to the end.