Example sentences of "[pers pn] set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 2 | So Tom , the A to Z and I set out on ‘ a voyage of discovery into the vast unknown ’ … |
| 3 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 4 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 5 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 6 | But it passed , quicker than any marsh fever , as I set out on my journey to Berlin — and was replaced by emotion , by the accession of innumerable sensitivities , not without their pivotal elements of pain . |
| 7 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 8 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 9 | On 9 November 1984 I set out for consultation a list of branded drugs which would no longer be prescribed under the health service . |
| 10 | ‘ We made ourselves some ro is , and when we 'd eaten them , I set out for home . |
| 11 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |
| 12 | The day after I got back from Moscow , I set out for Philadelphia , where I was due to receive a medal from the Franklin Institute . |
| 13 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
| 14 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 15 | The first evening we left the children with some of the helpers and my husband , David , and I set out to Mass at the convent . |
| 16 | I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 17 | ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that . |
| 18 | ‘ I set out to wilfully parody other music papers like Melody Maker who were so pompous ( plus ça change ! ) so I did things like call our letters section Gasbag after MM 's rather earnest ‘ Mailbag ’ . |
| 19 | I still have a note of the objectives for the review I set out at Wilton Park : |
| 20 | I set out at the time the details of the areas where we would see new and better facilities reopening , and those better facilities have reopened . |
| 21 | I set out below the additional information which will be required for the week commencing [ date ] . |
| 22 | So , somewhat in the footsteps of the pursuers of Colonel Fawcett , who disappeared many years ago into the jungles of South America , I set out after my man , who had slipped away , sadly and silently , back into the dark continent and seemingly into history . |
| 23 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 24 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 25 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 26 | The hon. and learned Gentleman will know that I recently had the privilege of giving the Sir George Bean memorial lecture in which I set out in some detail to the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women the basis for my approach to such matters . |
| 27 | I set out in May 1985 to write a feature for the Financial Times about this man apparently rich enough with his two brothers to pay £615m in cash for the House of Fraser . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |