Sentence examples for set out to wind from inspiring English sources

Bellamy, Rooney recalled, was the only player in all his Premier League years who deliberately set out to wind up the opposition.

We set out to win the Ashes.

We set out to actually measure what was going on". Prof Mobbs and his colleagues focused on Black Law wind farm, Scotland, which has been operating since 2005.

Most workers who set out to change their lives wind up in positions related to the ones they left, according to Right Management Consultants.

He set out to photograph the effects and wound up in a house with a big map of Oaxaca tacked on the wall.

One of her original pitch notes read, "When women set out to hurt each other, they usually wind up hurting themselves".

But as lame as it must feel to set out to prank some assholes and wind up getting pranked by some other assholes, the news doesn't discount Rober's entire glitter bomb video.

More interested in selling art than in making it, Pierre (1900-1989) set out to be a painter himself, but wound up as one of the century's most influential dealers in modern European works.

While most of MacGregor's book concentrates on the peaceable aspects of faith, from pilgrimages to shrines, household gods to shared deities, he does not avoid the acts of violence committed in the name of religion, especially where religion and state act as one; or where, as in revolutionary France and Russia, rulers set out to replace religion with reason and wound up with murder.

However, caution to the wind, he set out to decode Richter's language.

Mr. Leonard never set out to document the birth of bebop, though he wound up doing just that.