Example sentences of "he set out [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And at last he set out for the meeting-place .
2 He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded .
3 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 .
4 Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him .
5 As a result , after graduation he set out into an area of research which was more leisurely paced , where there was time to reflect and find the answers without the pressures from perpetual competition .
6 Bjornsson 's approach differed from that of many earlier researchers in two important ways : first , he set out at an early stage to make his formula one which would be useful for making cross-cultural comparisons , and second , he chose not to use the statistical technique of multiple regression .
7 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 .
8 In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks .
9 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 .
10 And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life .
11 He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat .
12 Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket .
13 He set out with an army across the Border .
14 A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver .
15 Accompanied by his close friend the German geographer Hermann von Wissmann , he set out from the port of Mukalla and visited the cities of Shibam , Saywun and Tarim , closely studying the society and minutely describing the topography , geology , flora and fauna of the valley .
16 In his thirty-two-foot ketch , Nuria , he set out from the small harbour under the shoulder of his Hebridean island .
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