Example sentences of "set [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were tears in the eyes … a mixture of pride and fear in the faces as the good ship Dodo 's Delight prepared to set sail for the rest of the world … |
| 2 | The 2,400-tonne HM Submarine Unicorn is scheduled to set sail for Plymouth on Wednesday , July 21 four weeks after her official commissioning . |
| 3 | Rosemary , who has learnt to cope with severe tinnitus , is all ready to set sail for the THIRD time aboard Lord Nelson , the specially adapted tall ship for disabled adventurers run by the Jubilee Sailing Trust . |
| 4 | His plan was for the contra leaders to set sail with their manifesto , or a version of it , to Philadelphia from Nicaragua . |
| 5 | Gould had arranged to rendezvous with Gilbert in Sydney before leaving for England , but so eager was he to set sail with his precious cargo that when it seemed Gilbert might have been delayed in Western Australia , he left without seeing him . |
| 6 | REBEL Whitby sea captain Jack Lammiman is preparing to set sail on his latest expedition a voyage to America to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus . |
| 7 | AROUND 50 yachts are expected to set sail from the Mersey this evening in Tranmere Sailing Club 's Annual IOM Race from Rock Ferry to Douglas . |
| 8 | With interest rates set to fall in the medium term this must augur well for values . |
| 9 | By the time we are all set to go to a club I am teetering on the brink . |
| 10 | Electricity users set to benefit from leap in profit |
| 11 | They may , therefore , only be marginally concerned with the effect that the examination they set has on teaching and learning in primary schools . |
| 12 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 13 | Two weeks of manoeuvres , in which the two navies practised working together , would follow and they would then set sail for Portsmouth , defeating the British fleet , correctly estimated at around 35 major warships , en route . |
| 14 | Later , when it grew dark , a fleet of ships would set sail for the ocean cemeteries , and the remembrance service would be held . |
| 15 | In Central South we 're landlocked but boating still plays an important part in our leisure and local economy … so let's set sail to London to see the show |
| 16 | They decided , with a wild mixture of folly and idealism , that in the spring of 1795 they would set sail from England to establish an ideal community in America , and in the meantime would gather recruits for the scheme and earn money for it by writing . |
| 17 | To appreciate the remoteness of this morsel of land , one must set sail from Santiago , strike west into the great Pacific , and rely on one 's navigational skills . |
| 18 | Around 50 yachts will set sail from Rock Ferry at 5pm when the Mayor of Wirral will fire the starting cannon from the esplanade . |
| 19 | New shops set to open in Scarborough 's £30m Brunswick Pavilion shopping mall by Mothercare , Microbite Computers and outfitters Maze , will take the number of new jobs created in the centre to more than 200 . |
| 20 | Furious , Richard hired thirty ships from the Marseilles merchants and set sail for Genoa , where Philip had arrived before him and promptly fallen ill . |
| 21 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 22 | And yesterday , after a week-long stay , 73 vessels , ranging from the massive Russian four-master the Sedov to the Boa Esperanca , a replica of Columbus 's boat , set sail for home . |
| 23 | Yarnell decided to prove his point so he detached two aircraft carriers , the Saratoga and Lexington and a few destroyers from his battle fleet and set sail for Oahu in poor weather conditions , radio silence and no lights . |
| 24 | He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark . |
| 25 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
| 26 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 27 | The fisherman cut their lines and set sail for port , but the sea serpent continued to follow them . |
| 28 | In 1928 an Indian graduate student , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , set sail for England to study at Cambridge with the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington , an expert on general relativity . |
| 29 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |
| 30 | FOUR young pigs set sail for the Falklands last month and to make sure they did n't get hungry on the way they took their own feed with them . |