Example sentences of "he set out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 2 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
| 3 | His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris . |
| 4 | Once when Denis Wirth-Miller was staying at Allen Street he set out for Soho in a cab with Minton who had four sailors in tow . |
| 5 | He set out for the presidential palace about 6 a.m. but heard the place was surrounded . |
| 6 | In 1669 he was first approached by the French statesman J. B. Colbert , and in December 1682 he set out for France , having been commissioned by Colbert to plan and construct the fountains at Versailles . |
| 7 | By six o'clock he was weary and bad tempered and he set out for home . |
| 8 | He then passed on to Constantinople , where again he stopped for a while ; and on 23 January 1433 ( I Jumada II 836 ) he set out for Edirne . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then he set out along the path that the old man had shown him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He set out at ten ; he viewed as many houses as possible , trudged across miles of fitted carpet and sanded floors , exchanged weary smiles with anxious vendors . |
| 13 | He would have preferred to stay at Lyons , but he set out at once in mid-March , and arrived in Rome about the end of April 1098 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In early June , poised between elation and despair , he set out on a walking tour with an amiably dull university friend , Joseph Hucks . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And he accepts that he set out on the lonely road to stardom too early in life . |
| 20 | He set out on the infamous traverse , then decided I was not up to it and we must engineer a retreat . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Pound in this passage recollects how , late in the war , he set out with borrowed boots and haversack from Rome , already doomed to fall to the advancing Allied armies , for the Italo-Austrian domicile of his natural daughter , Mary , and how , hiking and hitch-hiking , he encountered much kindness from Germans and Italians alike . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A real estate agent and descendant of one of the old missionary families , he set out with only a minimal grasp of technique to achieve the simple objective of riding the biggest wave in history . |
| 25 | He set out with an army across the Border . |
| 26 | He set out to be amusing ; he had a fund of anecdotes , some about people Eloise knew well . |
| 27 | Faldo savages the press for his treatment at Muirfield , where he set out as one of the hottest favourites in Open history . |
| 28 | All obstacles in the way of his return to England were now removed , and he set out in May . |
| 29 | I think he set out in plain language the priorities which Britain needs to address and which the present government is failing us on . |
| 30 | A keen owner of fast motor cycles and cars since he was fifteen , he set out after the war to be a racing driver . |