Example sentences of "set out for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a number of occasions , I have been glad to set out for the hon. Member in response to his questions in the House detailed information about the contents of the computer records and how many are held on the system at any one time . |
| 2 | They had been about to set out for the main bridge when he had said : |
| 3 | Henry II had five sons who were suspicious and envious of each other , but three of them died before Henry died in the summer of 1189 , and all his possessions passed to Richard , who had pledged himself to set out for the Holy Land on the Third Crusade . |
| 4 | Opposite him on one of the three tables set out for the lavish dinner was Prime Minister John Major . |
| 5 | We were n't far away from the ruins of an old settlement , abandoned at the time of the dreadful Clearances by islanders who , driven by impossible conditions , bravely set out for the unknown territories of Canada to start their lives afresh . |
| 6 | Overwhelmed by her publicity , Amaranth finished her breakfast , and set out for the Grand and Harvey , doing her very best to subdue a worm of doubt . |
| 7 | A handful of men , Karelius amongst them , set out for the far bank . |
| 8 | A military aeroplane set out for the Kaylayaan islands with voting papers for the village elections being held throughout the Philippines . |
| 9 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 10 | She had not felt this alone and lonely since she first set out for the French battlefields over fifty years ago . |