Biggles watched until the anchor splashed overboard; then, with a parting wave he turned to his self-imposed task.

The line subsequently broke and he afterwards made two further unsuccessful attempts at his self-imposed task.

Nathan had long since left Combe and embarked on his self-imposed task of making himself into a writer.

On his return home in 1807 he commenced the self-imposed task of making a geological survey of the United States.

Sergeant (with a 'g') Lewis's own, self-imposed task would, he suspected, be a fairly tricky undertaking.

But he wanted to finish his self-imposed task neatly before he died.

Garth did not want to answer questions; he had not yet finished his self-imposed task of cleaning up after the battle.

With his release from his self-imposed task and the end of the final ghostly vision, other thoughts were coming in to Worse!

Krug felt close to despair at the immensity of his self-imposed task.

She got Johnson to show the man round and went back to her self-imposed task of cleaning the silver.