Example sentences of "he set out for " in BNC.

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1 Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes .
2 And at last he set out for the meeting-place .
3 His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris .
4 Once when Denis Wirth-Miller was staying at Allen Street he set out for Soho in a cab with Minton who had four sailors in tow .
5 He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded .
6 In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles .
7 By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home .
8 He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne .
9 But there was a FOR SALE board up , new today , he had n't seen it there this morning when he set out for the meeting with the AC .
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