Example sentences of "setting out [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the bus started , they all crossed themselves , as I had seen nuns do in Ireland when setting out on a journey , however short . |
| 2 | Those who were influenced by this belief refrained from setting out on a journey or from starting a major task on that day of the week . |
| 3 | For this reason it is absolutely vital before setting out on a journey of this type , to plan as far as possible for this eventuality . |
| 4 | For example , someone setting out on a journey to a malarial zone would be best advised to rely on drugs rather than trusting the stars ' message alone as a protection against the disease . |
| 5 | My first attempt on these hills ended at about 1500 feet when two of us were simply blasted off , which I suppose served us right for even setting out on a morning dark and grey as a used Brillo pad . |
| 6 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 7 | There he found a moment of illusory tranquillity with his stepdaughter and her two sons , before setting out on the journey which was to end at Saint Helena . |
| 8 | Buffy was a young man at the time , just setting out on the journey of life , if you know what I mean . |
| 9 | Setting out on the road , I could not help thinking of Mr Rochester 's despair when he found himself abandoned . |
| 10 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 11 | Below : A conference of the Women 's Liberal Federation setting out for a tour of Blackpool and St. Annes in May 1926 , using six toastrack trams , here drawn up on both tracks at North Pier . |
| 12 | ‘ There would be no point in setting out for a star if you did n't know how far away it was . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 14 | Harry Taylor , on the left , before setting out for the summit . |
| 15 | More and more they saw the folly of setting out with a medium in search of a message … |
| 16 | Setting out into the desert was still regarded as important . |
| 17 | The cruise line industry is multinational in terms of career opportunities , and therefore the growth of the industry in the USA is of direct concern to all those setting out in a hotel , catering or leisure-orientated career . |
| 18 | They grow fast when transferred into trays or pots in the conservatory , greenhouse , cold frame or on a window ledge , prior to setting out in the garden a week or two later . |
| 19 | The journey was conceived and prepared through a Scottish winter with the idea of setting out in the spring . |