Example sentences of "[was/were] setting [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At around the same time the police were setting out to interview Pascoe again . |
| 2 | Statement of objectives : clear statements of what departments were setting out to do were required . |
| 3 | She arrived one day in the clinic in the peak of health and triumphantly announced that she had just got married and was setting out to live in Palm Springs with her husband . |
| 4 | If he was setting out to find out more about her , she could certainly do with knowing a little more about him , and her chances were at least as good as his . |
| 5 | Apparently he was setting out to grow whiskers of the latest fashion , for his lips were carefully shaved . |