Example sentences of "[pers pn] set out with " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But that is n't the question we set out with . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And having made their decision they set out with a will to forge a network of rough roads through this wilderness that would link the stockades of wire . |
| 9 | He sets out with three members of the Club , Tupman , Snodgrass , and Winkle , to observe the world and record their adventures . |
| 10 | The Scot will be in good company when he sets out with the early starters among the 70 survivors today . |
| 11 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |
| 12 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 13 | A real estate agent and descendant of one of the old missionary families , he set out with only a minimal grasp of technique to achieve the simple objective of riding the biggest wave in history . |
| 14 | He set out with an army across the Border . |