Example sentences of "[subord] i set out " 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 | ‘ Ignorance is no defence if anything should go wrong , so I set out to ensure managers are more aware of the broad outlines of the position . ’ |
| 3 | If I set out to teach , rather than entertain , I would achieve neither . |
| 4 | Since this is a controversial subject , on which the weight of scholarly opinion probably still supports Böhmer 's thesis that the documents already existed in their contaminated form in 1072 , and were used by Lanfranc in this form , it will perhaps help to clarify a complicated issue if I set out as bluntly as possible the reasons which seem to me to point decisively to 1120 as the date at which the forged additions were inserted into the texts . |
| 5 | If I set out |
| 6 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 7 | If I set out to do something now , I will do it and I wo n't worry if I am making the right impression — if I fit in . |
| 8 | Erm I 'll be I 'll be very brief because I set out Selby District 's views in in my written subm submission , but basically , strict interpretation of of this particular criterion , would clearly eliminate substantial parts of Selby District which is affected by the development of the coal field . |
| 9 | Before I set out , I took Aunt Louise her usual breakfast cup full of hot tea . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 12 | ‘ It seemed like the only thing to do before I set out . |
| 13 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 14 | When I set out to write this story I thought that it would primarily show how scientists come up with ideas , design a strategy to test them , carry out the experiments , share experiences and attempt to replicate claimed discoveries , thereby establishing new natural phenomena . |
| 15 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sure my arms are at least two inches longer than when I set out . ’ |
| 17 | We discussed all this in Committee when I set out our position clearly . |
| 18 | and I remember one particular February , it will always stand out in my mind because er , it 's a fairly long walk done to the factory from , from here and every day after the midday meal , when I set out to walk down there as quick as I could it had been cloudy since , it was raining , every day without fail I used to get to work soaked , first |
| 19 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 20 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 21 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 22 | 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 . |