Example sentences of "he set [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Prince Adam promptly donated the entire museum to a foundation which he set up for the purpose , to which he also ceded all his rights to his pre-war estates and property .
2 And at last he set out for the meeting-place .
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 Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more .
5 As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall .
6 He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster .
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