Example sentences of "[pers pn] set out [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She set out to play the world circuit completely on her own , as she had no financial resources and no sponsorship . |
| 2 | Just as bad was the passage of the retinue of Rigunth , as she set out to marry the Visigothic prince Reccared in 584 . |
| 3 | Then , studying changes over time , he set out to test the main conclusions derived from cross-sectional studies . |
| 4 | She was Tim 's first choice when he set out to find the perfect engagement ring for the woman he loved . |
| 5 | When Eligius became bishop of Noyon in 641 he set out to find the bones of the martyr Quentin . |
| 6 | With John Hanning Speke he set out to discover the source of the Nile . |
| 7 | He hardly even noticed the complaints of the people that he shouldered aside , or from the cars that were forced to stop as he set out to cross the street . |
| 8 | The Mikulić government , which took office in May 1986 , was clearly influenced by such attitudes when it set out to curb the rapidly rising inflation of that year by it policy of ‘ programmed inflation ’ . |