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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set about plowing the fields.
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-Wilding set about calculating the impact
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So, they set about working out exactly
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set about raising their own series of
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and also set about changing the name.