Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 2 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 3 | ‘ So we set out from the beginning to be ‘ author-friendly ’ . |
| 4 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 5 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |
| 6 | But if you set out on that rather tricky path , you will find before you finish that you have subtly to make this unheroic figure a hero after all . |
| 7 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 8 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 10 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
| 11 | We get up at 7 a.m. , and have breakfast at 7.30 ( now it 's getting to be more like 7.45 ! ) before we set out by car for the Institute where we start teaching at 8.30 . |
| 12 | ‘ The marshal , ’ complained one of his officers even before they set out on the futile march to Carlisle , ‘ is infirm and peevish … both in body and mind , forgetful , irresolute and perplext . ’ |
| 13 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 14 | But it passed , quicker than any marsh fever , as I set out on my journey to Berlin — and was replaced by emotion , by the accession of innumerable sensitivities , not without their pivotal elements of pain . |
| 15 | I would allow the appeal and give the directions as I set out in my judgment . |
| 16 | Because the subject is practically useful and will stand you in good stead when you set out on your chosen career . |
| 17 | As we set out in the truck which was going to take us the eight miles to Oakington , I was conscious that for once I was really looking my absolute best . |
| 18 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
| 19 | They know the grandchildren will grow up with a mixture of character traits collected from way back , on both sides of the family , but they like to think that something of theirs , some good trait or talent , will be packed somewhere in their grandchildren 's psychological ‘ baggage ’ when they set out on their journey into adult life . |
| 20 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | As we pray this prayer we join with those generous young men as they set out on their missionary journeys . |