Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set out " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 2 | So I set out to have a go at the Station side , but it just happened that there was also a scratch side called the C.N. Lowe 15 . |
| 3 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 4 | So we set out to find the truth behind the mystery — and discovered a woman who forged a dazzling career with precision and determination . |
| 5 | So he set out to look for one . |
| 6 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 7 | Thereafter he set out , increasingly influenced by the syndicalist ideas of his uneasy associate , James Connolly [ q.v. ] , to create , with some success , ‘ one big union ’ among urban workers , now notoriously discontented in a largely rural society . |
| 8 | At the Conservative Party Conference two weeks later I set out both the Government 's position and my own feelings . |
| 9 | Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | From here he set out about 36 AD for Damascus to capture and punish those Nazarene who were claiming that Jesus was the Messiah expected . |
| 12 | Then he set out to rappel down the cliff , jerk after jerk as his feet hit the rock . |
| 13 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 14 | So instead you set out either to strengthen your position or to undermine his . |
| 15 | Once again we set out in the pre-dawn walk through the forest , the amble across the alpine pastures , and the short struggle up the screes to the foot of the wall . |
| 16 | Instead they set out to ride roughshod over the legislative branch , attempting to govern without congress rather than with it . |
| 17 | They did not start campaigning against smoking ; instead they set out , with popperian zeal , to do more research to challenge their own findings . |
| 18 | Yet he set out to trap and violate women . |
| 19 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |
| 20 | Specifically we set out to discover why workers produced the output levels that they did and whether they grouped together to control their output or earnings at predefined levels . |