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

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1 Having cleaned her teeth , washed , put on a bit of make-up and brushed her hair , Daisy set out up the ride to Robinsgrove .
2 I watched as Norman handled the rope with competent familiarity , and set out up the centre of the slab .
3 They wrapped themselves up in thick woollen blankets and , laden with a sack of grain and a bundle of firewood , set out across the darkness .
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 She set out across it , wishing she had a dog with her and admiring , over her shoulder , the neat prints of boot sole and heel that she left behind her as she walked .
6 In the summer of 1979 , at the end of my first year as a history student at Edinburgh University , I , having never been outside Britain , put a pack on my back and , with a great and enduring friend of similar enthusiasm , set out across Europe .
7 So the next morning at dawn the poor wife took her baby in her arms and set out along the shore .
8 Wycliffe set out along the road which was no more than a lane following the course of a shallow valley .
9 Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him .
10 But at last they reached the top and set out along a ridge under the clear blue sky , valleys running steeply to left and right of them .
11 At two o'clock Wycliffe collected the dead man 's keys from the duty officer and set out along the wharf .
12 Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side .
13 Undaunted by the rain , she set out along the causeway , feeling like a princess in a fairy-tale about to join her prince .
14 Then there is a section which deals with the citation of authority by the parties , whether a welfare report has been considered , and the pro forma is dealing with cases where specifically the welfare check list has to be considered and the suggestion is made that each of the considerations under section 1(3) ( a ) to ( g ) are set out individually and the judgment or the findings of fact set out under each paragraph .
15 This is done by first transforming unc and then applying the procedure set out under SEQ below .
16 If the KPMG header is to be used or KPMG is to be referred to in the advertisement either as the contact address or in some other form , then the procedure to be followed is that set out under ‘ Placing of the Business Opportunity Advertisement by KPMG ’ below .
17 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 .
18 Quite suddenly she felt a generous relief , as though she 'd given science and herself new hope of heaven , and set out through the gathering dark , home , home across the dragon-haunted park .
19 As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition .
20 Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route .
21 JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything .
22 It was a long haul with my heavy bag to the bus stop at the top of town next day , but I made it and set out on a bus journey westward from Roscommon to Galway .
23 He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal .
24 Captain James Cook , whose parents were local farmworkers , set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary .
25 But he was not expecting the economy and the Government 's finances to be in a much worse state than that set out on March 10 in the Chancellor 's Budget report .
26 In 776 , when the Frankish army set out on the second invasion of Italy to quell the rebellious supporters of Prince Adelchis , the Westphalians and Engrialls revolted .
27 These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey .
28 ( Gen. 12.1 ) So Abram set out on a journey where faith rather than sight would be the guiding light , seeking a home , a city , a country .
29 In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks .
30 In early November Coleridge and the Wordsworths , whose deep and intuitive friendship had begun by now to exclude not only Sara but even Tom Poole , set out on the road to Porlock which Coleridge had taken the previous month .
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