Example sentences of "[noun prp] set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the death of Haran , Terah sets out for Canaan , with his grandson Lot and his son Abram and childless daughter-in-law Sarai . |
| 2 | The implementation of these concessions , made by the captive King John in London , was refused by the council in France , and late in 1359 Edward set out with a large army for France to see how persuasive a strong show of force could be . |
| 3 | Markby set out on a different line of approach . |
| 4 | Katie sets out on the trail of the kidnappers and her song for Ben becomes the means to save his life . |
| 5 | In 1954 he published Archaeology from the Earth , an instruction book on field archaeology ; many modern excavation techniques have their origins in the principles that Wheeler set out in that book . |
| 6 | FORD Cortina nut Nigel Barnes set out on honeymoon yesterday — to CORTINA in Italy . |
| 7 | The following morning Nahum set out on his visit to London , just seven days after their marriage , and Sarah watched his departure . |
| 8 | Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route . |
| 9 | The alternative approach of the evaluative typology that Barthes sets out in S/Z privileges the writing of the text , and sees it not as a structure or as a copy of a structure ( poetics ) , but as a practice . |
| 10 | ISS sets out in great detail ( paragraphs 3.9.3 to 3.9.16 ) both arguments . |
| 11 | The newt at Aughton is the emblem of Robert Aske , and it was from here that Aske set out in 1536 to lead the Pilgrimage of Grace against the religious reforms of Henry VIII . |
| 12 | Hazlitt set out with Coleridge that morning on the road back to Shrewsbury , observing how his companion continually moved from one side of the footpath to the other as they walked along , though only later connecting this odd movement with ‘ any instability of purpose or involuntary change of principle ’ . |
| 13 | In his Brainstorms , Dennett set out to : ‘ … sketch a theory of consciousness that can be continuous with and help unify current cognitivist theories of perception , problem solving and language use ’ ( Dennett 1979 : 149 ) . |
| 14 | So the following afternoon , as soon as Mrs Wormwood had departed in her car for another session of bingo , Matilda set out for Fred 's house to investigate . |
| 15 | Objective : ‘ Courtaulds set out to be the best of its kind at what it does . |
| 16 | Yorkshire set out on the final day in a difficult position , still 130 runs away from making Hampshire bat again , but with all wickets in hand . |
| 17 | In practice , Oxfordshire , Somerset , Leicestershire and Coventry set out on an ambitious exercise simultaneously with the development of the Northern Record of Achievement and the London Record of Achievement . |
| 18 | COUNTRY star Daniel O'Donnell sets out on a 46-date UK tour next week … after fears that he might never perform again . |
| 19 | Only six weeks after her confinement , the Mozarts set out for Salzburg to visit Leopold , a visit promised ever since their marriage but continually put off , much to Leopold 's annoyance . |
| 20 | By 10 minutes to 12 everything was ready for the bazaar , so Amanda set out for home , tingling with a mixture of excitement and fear . |
| 21 | Desimir set out with his six wagonloads of treasure , and was gone for three years . |
| 22 | could be the two of them they just , when er , when Lee set out on a Saturday evening with er Kevin and they often sit there and er have a , er a bit of a snack , supper , light supper and er |
| 23 | They became engaged in England and next year Miss Brooke set out for New York chaperoned by her brother Edgar , a solicitor . |
| 24 | In carrying out the balancing exercise Hoffmann J. set out on the one hand the enormous losses caused to a listed public company , the interests of the creditors of B. & C. , the public interest in having the whole matter investigated and the need of the administrators to find out the true financial position of the company and the truth of the representations made concerning it . |
| 25 | Fleischmann and Pons set out on a different course initially , but one that had already been charted in Europe in the 1920s and 30s . |
| 26 | In the second week of August , filled by an idealistic vision of their future lives on the banks of the Susquehannah , Coleridge and Southey set out from Bristol on a walking tour into Somerset . |
| 27 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 28 | Chola and Mina set out for the fields to continue the millet harvest , and Kalchu fetched the flat wooden spade and began beating down the mud to repair the leaking roof . |
| 29 | Soon afterwards Chola and Mina set out for the hills to gather grass . |
| 30 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |