Example sentences of "set out on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it was his turn at the sharp end , Mick set out on what we thought would be the crux of the route . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Captain James Cook , whose parents were local farmworkers , set out on his celebrated voyages of discovery from this estuary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . |
| 10 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A man must take up his pilgrim 's staff and set out on the farthest journey of all towards the very horizons of thought and dwell there always . |
| 13 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 14 | In practice , Oxfordshire , Somerset , Leicestershire and Coventry set out on an ambitious exercise simultaneously with the development of the Northern Record of Achievement and the London Record of Achievement . |
| 15 | The following morning Nahum set out on his visit to London , just seven days after their marriage , and Sarah watched his departure . |
| 16 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 17 | The Martin Hannett-produced ‘ Get Better ’ is their second 45 since singing to the Belgian label and the band set out on a European tour in March including a date at The Locomotive in Paris on March 20 . |
| 18 | Within six months , however , he had left the Party and set out on the road that led to the formation of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 . |
| 19 | Markby set out on a different line of approach . |
| 20 | The gifts , set out on trestle tables , are not exotic or expensive . |
| 21 | Fleischmann and Pons set out on a different course initially , but one that had already been charted in Europe in the 1920s and 30s . |
| 22 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 23 | Froissart in his Chronicles describes the probably schizophrenic Charles VI , who set out on a punitive expedition to Brittany , in spite of being ordered to rest by his doctors , who had evidently recognised the signs of an approaching attack . |
| 24 | FORD Cortina nut Nigel Barnes set out on honeymoon yesterday — to CORTINA in Italy . |
| 25 | In the cellar are six Skeletons manacled around a half-collapsed wooden table piled high with the desiccated and thoroughly foul remains of a meal set out on silver serving plates ( worth 5 GCs in total ) . |
| 26 | A more lenient standard , set out on legislation in 1975 , permits judges ( at their discretion ) to admit as evidence almost any opinion from an ‘ expert witness ’ , defined as someone who is qualified ‘ by knowledge , skill , experience , training or education ’ to speak to a given subject . |
| 27 | Constantius set out on a determined course of retribution , seeking out all the followers of Magnentius and exacting punishment by execution , imprisonment and confiscation of their estates and wealth . |
| 28 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 29 | Then we fell on the food set out on the table . |
| 30 | Flavia set out on an aimless walk . |