Example sentences of "he set out " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never at any time in his career did he set out solely to defend . |
| 2 | Had Pardy , in a nutshell , just been carried away and thoughtless — which might result in a lesser charge — or had he set out to harm Harriet with such deadly results that this might even finish up as a trial for manslaughter ? |
| 3 | Before the table Edward Hussey stood hunched in defensive composure , very plainly dressed — had he set out to demonstrate the modesty of his means ? — and with his countenance fixed in an expression of resigned and dutiful benevolence . |
| 4 | His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . |
| 5 | They illustrate some of the problems the policeman/anthropologist faces when he sets out to describe and interpret police culture , for he must — if the ethnography is to count — reveal hidden aspects of the relationships of power which are an integral aspect of this institution of state . |
| 6 | As in his earlier anthology , The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse ( 1984 ) , he sets out ‘ to question some of the deeply ingrained preconceptions about what it was possible to feel , think , and write in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 7 | He needs this , particularly if he sets out to be a novelist . |
| 8 | Alan Walker argues that the income of retired people must be raised and he sets out a series of specific measures to : |
| 9 | He sets out with three members of the Club , Tupman , Snodgrass , and Winkle , to observe the world and record their adventures . |
| 10 | That was two years after Green published his Guide in which he sets out these quoted ideas . |
| 11 | Poirot 's ‘ little grey cells ’ start to work overtime , and with Hastings in tow he sets out to unmask the peril at ‘ End House ’ . |
| 12 | Waving his cheque book for $10 000 ( ready to Day to anyone who can produce convincing psychic phenomena ) he sets out on the exposure trail . |
| 13 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 14 | He sets out the triads that can be extracted from a particular scale , then he applies various formulae for adding and subtracting notes to and from the triads in order to realise the scale type 's total harmonic potential . |
| 15 | If a professional binder is employed , make very sure that he is what he sets out to be and has all the qualities of sensitive craftsmanship the work demands . |
| 16 | When he sets out from Rivendell Boromir blows his horn , the family heirloom , and is rebuked by Elrond for doing so ; but he takes no notice . |
| 17 | Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen . |
| 18 | CARL Llewellyn will be tucking into a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs before he sets out to win Saturday 's Hennessy Gold Gold Cup on Captain Dibble . |
| 19 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 20 | At the very opening of Of Grammatology , for example , he sets out the thesis that writing constitutes the condition of emergence for all forms of historicity as such : |
| 21 | This is obviously related to Foucault 's analysis of the genealogy of the disciplinary society , a society of surveillance and control , which he sets out in his book Discipline and Punish , and to his argument that power proceeds not in the traditional model of sovereignty ( that is negatively , ‘ thou shalt not ’ ) but through administering and fostering life ( that is positively , ‘ you must ’ ) . |
| 22 | Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot . |
| 23 | He sets out standards governing family relationships , regard for human life , sex , property , speech and thought . |
| 24 | Paul knew that his plans were in God 's hands , and that certainty comes across very clearly in the way that he sets out his desire to go forward for Jesus . |
| 25 | He sets out to show that in Gogol 's tale ‘ the centre of gravity is transferred from the theme … to the devices ’ ( 1963 : 377 ) . |
| 26 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |
| 27 | The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today . |
| 28 | Ditton ( 1979 ) was said to have carried out ‘ a unique situational ethnography in a bakery ’ , when he set out to assess fiddling ; while Holdaway ( 1979 , 1982 , 1983 ) has pursued aspects of police culture , using his previous insider 's knowledge to peel away some of the layers of obfuscation . |
| 29 | He set out at ten ; he viewed as many houses as possible , trudged across miles of fitted carpet and sanded floors , exchanged weary smiles with anxious vendors . |
| 30 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |