Example sentences of "[pron] set out [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It is alleged by the fourth plea , that the defendant 's testator never requested the plaintiff to enter into the engagement to marry , or to marry , and that there never was any consideration for the testator 's promise , except what may be collected from the letter itself set out in the declaration .
2 She set out for the cemetery where both her parents were buried .
3 Flavia was working ; the long days in the tower were intact , only in the evening she set out for the house on the other bay ; the difficult hour at the cafe was cut , even writing became bearable .
4 She had slammed the door as she set out for the Dallam wedding , leaving Odette in tears .
5 Undaunted by the rain , she set out along the causeway , feeling like a princess in a fairy-tale about to join her prince .
6 Stewart Hulse , team leader of the Langdale and Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team , has some harsh words for youth groups who set out onto the Lakeland Fells , determined to complete their objectives at all costs .
7 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 ?
8 And as we set out in the management letter , it 's a requirement of the audit commissioners code of practice , as we do report to areas of all the authorities that we deal with on an annual basis .
9 Well they were usually a line of kids standing along the wall or something and one set out in the middle of the field and then you had to touch them and then you 'd be back to the wall and they had to do it .
10 And at last he set out for the meeting-place .
11 He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded .
12 But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC .
13 Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him .
14 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
15 He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat .
16 A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver .
17 Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley .
18 In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island .
19 Business Post , the express mail and parcel carrier went to TEC Consultants for advice when it set out on the path of getting its network accredited two years ago .
20 The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them .
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