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

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1 Waving his cheque book for $10 000 ( ready to Day to anyone who can produce convincing psychic phenomena ) he sets out on the exposure trail .
2 Now he sets out on the second stage of the journey , with Sarai , his childless wife , and his nephew Lot .
3 He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again .
4 He set out on a surging run for goal and held off the challenge of Moore and Benali before sending a low shot past Stejskal .
5 These include Buckle Island , just off the Antarctic coast , and Mts Erebus and Terror , only a few kilometres from Scott 's original base camp , from which he set out on his last heroic journey .
6 In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks .
7 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 .
8 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
9 He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat .
10 He set out on foot as it was getting dark , and had already walked three or four miles when he saw a cart , half-full of hay , by the side of the road .
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