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

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1 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 ?
2 He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded .
3 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
4 He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat .
5 In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island .
6 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 .
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