Sentence examples for set out to lay from inspiring English sources

One measure of Brill's ambition is how, amid the mythmaking, he set out to lay the foundations of historical interpretation for future studies of the events.

He met Hope in Brussels, and they proceeded to Paris, where Adam fitted himself out in the latest fashions and set out to "lay in a stock of good acquaintance that may be of use to me hereafter".

In the late 1920s, when the architect George Thomas and his construction foreman Billy Bell set out to lay out 18 holes on the canyon floor below the Santa Monica Mountains, they used road-grading equipment to create swales.

The company set him up with a coach — Chris Thomas, the 2009 USA Triathlon amateur athlete of the year — and the two set out to lay a foundation for the months of running ahead.

"I never deliberately set out to lie about my age.

Poetry: "I set out to lie with the other girls on the low dunes / before the morning heat got metamorphic".

I was sedimentary: I set out to lie with the other girls on the low dunes before the morning heat got metamorphic.

I have called such victims "perjury pawns," because there's no way they intentionally set out to lie under oath and were no doubt trying to get through what must have been one of the toughest times of their lives -- or even the end of their life.

I didn't set out to punish or ruin or lie.

We set out to assess current understanding of MRSA among the lay public prior to writing an information booklet for relatives of patients in the ICU.

We set out to assess the additional extra cost of skilling either a lay person or a nurse to competently undertake an asthma review.