Example sentences of "[pron] set out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 3 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 4 | Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 7 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 8 | In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island . |
| 9 | The floor of his room was like a maze , with tower-blocks of books , whole walls of them set out on the thin carpet and holed linoleum so that only small corridors for him to walk in remained between them . |