Example sentences of "[noun prp] set out [prep] [noun] " 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 | FORD Cortina nut Nigel Barnes set out on honeymoon yesterday — to CORTINA in Italy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They became engaged in England and next year Miss Brooke set out for New York chaperoned by her brother Edgar , a solicitor . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus , in March 1990 , Christine set out for Heathrow with a stack of documents required by the Romanian authorities , and little idea of what awaited her . |
| 11 | With Leoncico snapping genially at his heels , with a force of 190 Spaniards and with several hundred more local guides and porters embarked on a fleet of nine canoes and a small ship named the Chapinera , Balboa set out for Acla on the morning of Thursday , 1 September 1513 . |
| 12 | Letting herself out inconspicuously by way of the backstairs , Joan set out after dark for the Garden Tower , taking a circuitous route to avoid arousing suspicion . |
| 13 | Yet I seemed to hear the distant cheers , as each Province selected its king and the champions of Ulster , Leinster , Connaught and Munster set out for Tara and the kingship trials . |
| 14 | On Good Friday 1958 the first march set out for Aldermaston , the atomic research establishment in Berkshire , under the CND symbol , a black circle forked with a white ‘ drooping cross ’ , the semaphore symbols for N and D , which became the membership badge not only for the campaign but for a certain kind of non-conformity among young people . |
| 15 | With this hope , he and Eugénie set out in August 1867 on a state visit to Austria to meet the Emperor Franz-Joseph at Salzburg . |
| 16 | He and the Reverend McQueen set out after breakfast to find the ruins of what McQueen believed had been an ancient pagan temple to the goddess Anaitis . |