Example sentences of "[pers pn] set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I set out with a more or less religious belief in a Platonic , eternal world , in which mathematics shares with a beauty , shines , I 'm sorry , with a beauty of that of the last cantos of the Paradiso . ’ |
| 2 | If Bully was in the front garden when she set out for Pack Meeting , he would leap the gate and bound up to her , putting his great front paws against her chest , and barking at her . |
| 3 | She set out for the cemetery where both her parents were buried . |
| 4 | Flavia was working ; the long days in the tower were intact , only in the evening she set out for the house on the other bay ; the difficult hour at the cafe was cut , even writing became bearable . |
| 5 | She had slammed the door as she set out for the Dallam wedding , leaving Odette in tears . |
| 6 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 7 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 8 | The skies had darkened ominously as she set out on her journey to the coast , but she was not unduly concerned about the dismal weather . |
| 9 | Undaunted by the rain , she set out along the causeway , feeling like a princess in a fairy-tale about to join her prince . |
| 10 | She set out across it , wishing she had a dog with her and admiring , over her shoulder , the neat prints of boot sole and heel that she left behind her as she walked . |
| 11 | However , after training , she set out by boat for India in 1935 at the age of 30 as a pioneer missionary under the auspices of the Ceylon and India General Mission . |
| 12 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 13 | If this year we have to stabilize in this way , do these things , then that 's not a bad achievement compared with what we set out with three months ago . |
| 14 | Now we had quite a problem trying to obtain erm a bottle size the two litre size at a reasonable price when we set out on this er thing . |
| 15 | He said it was due to our unique Anglo-Saxon law whereby we set out in law what is reasonable and then we enforce it . |
| 16 | And as we set out in the management letter , it 's a requirement of the audit commissioners code of practice , as we do report to areas of all the authorities that we deal with on an annual basis . |
| 17 | Erm following discussion at the Airport Policy panel , erm we submitted the whole weeks which you will see we set out in appendix er one of the report . |
| 18 | Mr Deputy Speaker , as the honourable members knows , our S S A calculations are on slightly different basis from England as we set out in this report and we do believe that local authorities should have the maximum flexibility to make their own decisions and it is therefore a matter for local debate . |
| 19 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 20 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 21 | His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris . |
| 22 | Once when Denis Wirth-Miller was staying at Allen Street he set out for Soho in a cab with Minton who had four sailors in tow . |
| 23 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 24 | In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles . |
| 25 | By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home . |
| 26 | He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne . |
| 27 | But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC . |
| 28 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 29 | As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition . |
| 30 | 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 . |