Example sentences of "set out [to-vb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would expect no man , having come through that , to set out to march thirty odd miles to the Tay , this side of nightfall . |
| 2 | It 's important too to stress that we did originally set out to divert ten percent of those people from residential and nursing homes into care in the community packages . |
| 3 | May I take the liberty of reminding the right hon. Gentleman of his relative 's famous quote in relation to his own personal position : that each man 's life is like a diary in which we set out to write one account and finish up writing something different and that our most humble moment comes when we compare what we have written with that which we intended to write . |
| 4 | Three Cleveland motorcyclists set out to ride 2,000 miles to the four compass points of mainland UK in aid of charity . |
| 5 | However , Peter Firstbrook 's series , lucidly scripted and fronted by Edward Behr , makes no secret of having set out to make one kind of series ( Wither China ? ) and then being armlocked by events in to another ( Withered China ? ) |
| 6 | Gathering the soldiers around him , the Commanding Officer explained what he had set out to achieve two weeks ago . |
| 7 | When an international gardening show like ‘ Floriade 1992 ’ sets out to draw 3.5 million visitors in 182 days ( until 11 October ) , it can not afford to give much leeway to the free play of nature . |
| 8 | It sets out to do one job , and , within the limitations it sets itself , it does it well . |
| 9 | And the author of romantic suspense does well to let that truth at least seep into her unconscious before setting out to write one of the books in the genre . |
| 10 | Mrs Lamport , of Harlsey Crescent , Hartburn , Stockton , became obsessed with her researches as she set out to trace 514 notable people named on the fan . |