set about
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To start doing something in a purposeful way, or to physically attack someone.
"She set about reorganising the entire filing system on her first day."
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-Wilding set about calculating the impact
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and also set about changing the name.
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And then it set about damaging Bristol.
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We set about our unplanned consumer test.
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We'd better set about hiding them.