Example sentences of "and [pers pn] set out " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Tom , the A to Z and I set out on ‘ a voyage of discovery into the vast unknown ’ … |
| 2 | We had also determined to acquit ourselves well in the removal of fish from their natural habitat , and Blair and I set out one evening intent upon playing havoc with Ythan sea-trout . |
| 3 | Experience was all , and I set out to grab it with both hands , drifting from country to country , from one relationship to another , a heedless , hedonistic round with never a thought for tomorrow . |
| 4 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |
| 5 | The first evening we left the children with some of the helpers and my husband , David , and I set out to Mass at the convent . |
| 6 | A few years ago , John Cook and I set out to examine this effect quantitatively . |
| 7 | And you set out in the morning and you know this road , you know this road well . |
| 8 | Julie is devastated to discover she is adopted and she sets out to find her natural parents . |
| 9 | … as soon as the Empress saw a place which was totally wild with virtually unclimbable rocks everyone got out of the carriage and she set out , armed with a stout walking stick , to beat a path over huge rocks , clumps of juniper bushes , enormous ferns as high as shrubs . |
| 10 | And she set out to do just that by making the little budgie one of Britain 's most popular pets . |
| 11 | Pat had stressed its appeal in his manuscript so , on a snatched afternoon 's climbing , I met Don Sargeant and we set out to investigate . |
| 12 | We set out to win that Cambridgeshire and we set out to win the two races at Haydock which came before today , ’ he smiled . |
| 13 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 14 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 15 | The best climbers in the school were picked for the hunt and they set out , one on each shelf . |
| 16 | Their discussion of what the press ‘ should be and do ’ reflects an East — West Cold War divide and they set out ideal , polar positions so as to highlight differences . |
| 17 | Ellen and Neal Wood , in Class , Ideology and Ancient Political Theory maintain that the ‘ classics of political theory are fundamentally ideological ’ ( 1978 , p. ix ) and they set out to relate them ‘ more closely and systematically ’ to their social contexts . |
| 18 | Drs Malhotra and Thorpe , though , took the view that the differences between the anoles were probably related to the differences in their environments , rather than to reproductive isolation , and they set out to prove it . |
| 19 | Both founders came from publishing backgrounds ( she from Collins and he from Michael Bond 's Paddington & Company ) , and they set out to develop new market niches , through licensing book related characters and properties — such as Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit , Michael Bond 's Paddington Bear and Jill Barklem 's Brambly Hedge — and through widening the merchandise beyond toys , particularly into the gift trade . |
| 20 | His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . |
| 21 | Alan Walker argues that the income of retired people must be raised and he sets out a series of specific measures to : |
| 22 | His wife and daughter were mugged and raped and he set out on a trail of revenge killings in cold blood , making himself bait for the muggers . |
| 23 | All obstacles in the way of his return to England were now removed , and he set out in May . |
| 24 | Bartlett 's work was a reaction to the strict controlled experimenting of Ebbinghaus , using nonsense materials , and he set out to establish that the process of learning involved a restructuring on the part of the individual towards a better organisation from his own point of view . |
| 25 | By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home . |
| 26 | That sets out the growth of the savings and which it contains in the report with paragraph and appendix reference numbers on them and it sets out for each of the groups , their proposed budgets . |
| 27 | It clearly sets out to branches delivery goals that depots intend to achieve and it sets out how , in return , the branches can aid the delivery process . |
| 28 | As long ago as 1975 a Home Office White Paper ‘ Computers and Privacy ’ said , unambiguously , that ‘ the time has come when those who use computers to handle personal information , however responsible they are , can no longer remain the sole judges of whether their own systems adequately safeguard privacy ’ , and it set out clearly the special features of computerised information systems which had implications for privacy . |
| 29 | It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance . |