Example sentences of "set out [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Greg says he did set out to irritate his former boss as he got there first with talks with RHM last May . |
| 2 | Lewis does not set out to make himself cleverer than the reader , stili less cleverer than the authors whom he is discussing . |
| 3 | She did not deliberately set out to make herself interesting to men . |
| 4 | When we set out to do something new we often assume that the baseline will continue as it always has done . |
| 5 | Wambaugh , himself an ex-cop , describes the ways in which wildly autocratic and psychotic bosses set out to undermine their own ‘ front line troops on the streets ’ and describes a manual which mirrors the poster in the Northumbria police training department described above : |
| 6 | But by 1750 fashion had changed — look at the new style of English landscape garden — and artists and poets set out to explore their own island in search of the picturesque ; in due course they arrived in Cumberland . |
| 7 | I set out to clarify my own circumstances vis-à-vis employment rights . |
| 8 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 9 | In form the Song of Roland is like a succession of vivid , jerky photographs , like an early motion picture ; it is as though the author had set out to describe something similar to the Bayeux Tapestry , depicting the tragedy , not of Harold , but of Roland . |
| 10 | But nowadays there 's more elbow room and less cigar smoke — and the shrewder restaurateurs have set out to replace their lost business regulars by constructing lunch menus that are brief , light and designed to show off the chef 's talents rather than the customer 's credit rating ; it 's hard to believe that anyone can produce a good meal so cheaply . |
| 11 | Julie is devastated to discover she is adopted and she sets out to find her natural parents . |
| 12 | In setting out to examine what social policy is , and how it may be studied , some answers have been suggested to the question , ‘ Why study it ? ’ |
| 13 | Rachmaninov , almost 30 when he completed his Chopin Variations , was by contrast more cautious , setting out to compose his first large-scale solo work for his own instrument ; and , although he already had the popular Second Concerto behind him , he had also been deeply affected by the disastrous première of his First Symphony , just four years earlier , under the erratic baton of the guttered Glazunov . |
| 14 | Charlie left his men resting in their tents while he set out to do his own private recce . |
| 15 | John Mowlem set out to improve his native town . |
| 16 | As is often the case , his boredom was mixed with nostalgia , and so when he set out to create something new , he also had something borrowed in mind . |
| 17 | My dybbuk set out to drive me crazy , and she damned near did . |
| 18 | Nor was such military service the only obligation on which the sixth-century Merovingians could rely : they could expect the provision of hospitality , which could be an extremely costly business , as when Chilperic I 's daughter , Rigunth , set out to meet her intended husband in Spain — her retinue devastated the country it passed through . |
| 19 | SCOTLAND set out to salvage their under-21 season when they round off a disappointing campaign against the Welsh at Myreside , Edinburgh , today ( 3pm ) . |