Example sentences of "set out from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He set out from here , Poděbrad Palace , for his coronation in St Vitus ' Cathedral in March 1458 . |
| 3 | The entire unit set out from Kabrit at night , carrying weights to simulate the bombs which we would have to cart along with us on a real raid . |
| 4 | In the second half of the first millennium , a canoe set out from an island in the Tahitian chain and steered due north for two and a half thousand miles by the light of the stars and the ocean currents till it reached Hawaii . |
| 5 | On 16 March 1978 , another canoe , the Hokule'a , sixty feet long and double-hulled , set out from Honolulu , steering south towards Tahiti , seeking to mirror that original expedition , using the same techniques of astral navigation and water-knowledge . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On a day which was among the more remarkable in literary history , he set out from Lime Street , and as on so many previous occasions reached Alfoxden down the lonely tree-shuttered lane through the deer park . |
| 8 | Certainly , as Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice in the way God had commanded him , his faith was flying blind in its implicit obedience , just as it had when he set out from Ur for a country which he had never seen . |
| 9 | Floy and Snodgrass , with Balor accompanying them , set out from Tara at noon the next day . |
| 10 | However , Beecroft 's attempts , little noted at the time because they were mounted from Fernando Po , proved much more successful than the highly publicized expeditions that set out from England . |
| 11 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 12 | On June 11 the first truck convoy since the fall of Mengistu set out from the port of Assab towards Addis Ababa carrying fuel and food . |
| 13 | With Mesic openly urging JNA soldiers and officers to desert , a large JNA armoured column set out from Belgrade on Sept. 19 . |
| 14 | With Churchill 's prodding , the British Chiefs-of-Staff had agreed to participate in the operation , albeit in modified form , and on 31 August an Anglo-Free French expedition set out from Liverpool . |
| 15 | Mr Horie , 54 , set out from Hawaii on 29 October in a canoe-shaped boat with a set of bicycle pedals connected to a propeller . |