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third-person singular simple present sets about, present participle setting about, simple past and past participle set about
To initiate or begin some action. quotations examples
No time has been lost in setting about the implementation of non-controversial Beeching proposals.
1963 June, “News and Comment: Road-rail co-operation”, in Modern Railways, page 362
But that’s a dubious triumph: A book is a book and a movie is a movie, and whenever the latter merely sets about illustrating the former, it’s a failure of adaptation, to say nothing of imagination.
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games
To attack. examples