set about
/sɛt‿əˈbaʊt/ verb- Used with the adverb sense of about.
- To circulate or spread (news, a rumour, etc.)
- To start doing or to devote oneself to some task; to set upon. · He set about designing his homepage.· She set about the task with a will.
Past -
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It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry.
Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and on the other with prim Lombardies.
She had made friends with the spring down in the hollow--that wonderful deep, clear icy-cold spring; it was set about with smooth red sandstones and rimmed in by great palm-like clumps of water fern; and beyond it was a log bridge over the brook.
Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances which he supposed a regular part of the business.
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