Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 2 | So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest . |
| 3 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 4 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Each of these clear days of scattered apple and white pear tree blossom moved inexorably towards the first day when they set out without books and came home in the evening showing the pink or blue papers they had tested themselves against in the examination hall . |
| 7 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |
| 8 | Six days afterwards I set out in direct disobedience of orders to rejoin my regiment . |