Example sentences of "[noun pl] and set out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Undaunted , the Carlist militias — the Requetés — formed into columns and set out for Madrid , some 500 kilometres to the south , in buses , in trucks and on foot .
2 He put on his sandals and set out for the office of the babu who had the power to give his people what they wanted , or to refuse .
3 A proof must be in the form known as " proof of debt " ( whether the form prescribed by the rules and set out in Sched 4 to the rules as Form 6.37 or a substantially similar form , see App C , form 34 ) and must be signed by the creditor or someone authorised on his behalf ( r 6.69(3) ) .
4 When the sun began to sink and the evening grew cold , they stripped their clothes from the thorn trees , collected together their pans and bamboo brooms and set out across the bridge for home .
5 So it was that with high spirits I packed Baedekers and prejudices , boots and a bootload of assumptions and set out for Dover .
6 So the next morning at dawn the poor wife took her baby in her arms and set out along the shore .
7 In the end the woman chooses to renounce both men and sets out on her own path .
8 Randolph , smiling from ear to ear , quickly dressed into warm clothes and set out towards the toy factory .
9 But Mr Clinton , 46 , was yesterday taking no chances and set out on a final round-the-clock trek to nine states before heading home today to cast his own vote .
10 In 1980 McDevitt and an accomplice dressed up as Federal Express employees and set out for the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls , New York .
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