Example sentences of "[pron] set out from " in BNC.
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| 1 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 2 | The cost in horses and men was heavy , and the feeding of the former a significant outlay , especially when corn prices were high : " Robert Russell , proprietor of the daily fly wagons which set out from London … to Falmouth , feels much pleasure in being able , owing to the blessings derived from the late harvest , to reduce the advances he lately made on carriage . " |
| 3 | Peter Kessler , spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) , said it was hoped the ten-truck convoy which set out from Belgrade on Sunday could now proceed to the village of Cerska , where some 25,000 Muslims are trapped . |
| 4 | We set out from Spean Bridge , where numerous coach parties enjoy real Highland hospitality in the Little Chef , before choosing from a rich selection of tartan travel rugs and heather-perfumed candles in the gift shop , and chugged our way up past Corriechoille farm . |
| 5 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 6 | They set out from Siwa in mid-May , travelling in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ in convoy with an LRDG patrol led by Robin Gurdon . |
| 7 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
| 8 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley . |
| 12 | He set out from here , Poděbrad Palace , for his coronation in St Vitus ' Cathedral in March 1458 . |
| 13 | On a day which was among the more remarkable in literary history , he set out from Lime Street , and as on so many previous occasions reached Alfoxden down the lonely tree-shuttered lane through the deer park . |
| 14 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 15 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |