Example sentences of "if [pers pn] set out " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I set out to teach , rather than entertain , I would achieve neither . |
| 2 | Since this is a controversial subject , on which the weight of scholarly opinion probably still supports Böhmer 's thesis that the documents already existed in their contaminated form in 1072 , and were used by Lanfranc in this form , it will perhaps help to clarify a complicated issue if I set out as bluntly as possible the reasons which seem to me to point decisively to 1120 as the date at which the forged additions were inserted into the texts . |
| 3 | If I set out |
| 4 | I have , therefore , taken advantage of your absence on academic business to give the matter more thought and I feel it might be best if I set out the various considerations involved in written form . |
| 5 | If I set out to do something now , I will do it and I wo n't worry if I am making the right impression — if I fit in . |
| 6 | If you set out to buy a telescope , take great care . |
| 7 | If you set out to buy a pair of binoculars , and decide to test them , look at the Moon by all means , but never , on any account , point them anywhere near the Sun . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of course you can make appalling howlers if you set out for some reason to portray life in a social area unknown to you . |
| 10 | You y if you set out on a train under normal circumstances you 're confident that you 're going to arrive in London at |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Kim , 1971 ) If we set out to frame hypotheses about the chosen part of consciousness , we do so at our peril , flying in the dark . |
| 13 | If we set out to design something ( a business , a project , a product , a campaign , a job ) we need to keep our priorities clearly in mind at each step because alter a while the momentum of the design will take over and dictate what comes next . |
| 14 | If we set out to design the worst possible pelvis we could end up with something like a Friesian , Charolais or Belgian Blue cow . |
| 15 | ‘ If they set out from Tara at the hour they intended , they will have gone down the forest road hours earlier . ’ |
| 16 | He needs this , particularly if he sets out to be a novelist . |