Example sentences of "[verb] set out on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 2 | After only four months at home , Leopold decided to set out on another , longer tour , this time to Paris and London . |
| 3 | Pictured setting out on their European tour are the Old Quarries five-a-side football squad and staff . |
| 4 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 5 | And if he had to set out on this nonsensical journey to the Fire Court with the Humans , it would be as well to just stock up a bit for his return . |
| 6 | The four , in their thirties and forties , had set out on board the 43ft Rose Noelle on 1 June for a three-week voyage to Tonga , but were reported overdue on 24 June . |
| 7 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 8 | On Thursday 23 May 1974 , little more than a week after Jinky had set out on his transatlantic crossing , the player was the focus of a controversial legal wrangle when a judge at Airdrie Sheriff Court postponed a trial involving the Celtic winger to allow him to prepare for Scotland 's forthcoming World Cup campaign in Germany . |
| 9 | I had set out on my walking tour of France in search of tranquillity . |
| 10 | In July 1338 Edward had set out on campaign in Flanders , leaving the realm in the charge of a keeper , the eight-year-old duke of Cornwall , and a council , on which Richard Bintworth , bishop of London , and Robert Wodehouse , archdeacon of Richmond , sat as chancellor and treasurer respectively . |
| 11 | Other reports were that numbers of people had set out on foot from Tirana for Dürres and Vlore in response to rumours . |
| 12 | Sheriff Principal Robert Hay was told how Mr Watts , of Preston , Lancs , had set out on a week-end jaunt on the fatal day . |
| 13 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |
| 14 | But he , or she , does need to be within striking distance of yourself , especially when you have set out on the tricky waters of the novel . |