Example sentences of "set [vb base] for " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Later , when it grew dark , a fleet of ships would set sail for the ocean cemeteries , and the remembrance service would be held . |
| 6 | Furious , Richard hired thirty ships from the Marseilles merchants and set sail for Genoa , where Philip had arrived before him and promptly fallen ill . |
| 7 | Reluctantly , I hired a pea-green boat , and with my faithful Siamese cat ( Doc Wat Son ) I set sail for Nursery Isle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | WE SET SAIL for Europe in the summer of 1948 — for Europe , and for war . |
| 12 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 13 | The fisherman cut their lines and set sail for port , but the sea serpent continued to follow them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The vessel had left Portugal in January , docked in Darwin , Australia , on March 8 , and set sail for East Timor on March 9 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Italian and French frigates have set sail for Mogadishu . |
| 18 | Roche was beaten a length on Desert Team , who had set sail for home through the testing ground but was collared by the John Oxxtrained Sinissipi . |
| 19 | $4m will be going into the Columbian world fair at Seville ; the Dominican Republic is hoping to build a 390-foot lighthouse for $10m ; 12 full-size replica ships will be setting sail for America ( presumably from their commissioning countries ) , and the fifth Genovese Columbian conference will be exhibiting every plant of the New World . |
| 20 | The comic duo , soon to star in Branagh 's new film Peter 's Friends , are seen setting sail for New York in Episode One to escape Bertie 's marriage to the unspeakable Honoria Glossop , but danger lurks among their fellow first-class passengers . |
| 21 | Five top players shocked their province by upping sticks and setting sail for Japan . |
| 22 | For Henry Thomas had left Tredegar for railway employment in Swindon and one of his sons , the Uncle Harry who features in the Swindon holidays described so lovingly in The Childhood of Edward Thomas , was a fitter at the Swindon GWR works until he set sail for South Africa in 1891 . |
| 23 | When I spoke to Weir , now a sprightly 83 , he still remembered what he was going to be in for when he set sail for a country which had legendary names like Hobbs , Sutcliffe , Woolley , Hendren and many others floating around the various counties . |
| 24 | A year later , taking leave of his wife with some piercing poems of separation , he set sail for India . |
| 25 | When she set sail for her homeland in 1952 Eva and another Australian girl were given the job of looking after twelve children from the Fairbridge Society on the voyage . |
| 26 | Her mother waved the 20-year old off , and she set sail for England . |
| 27 | On renouncing alcohol he was pardoned and he set sail for Darlington where he became a leading light in the Society . |
| 28 | It was an emotional moment back in nineteen forty as Cliff , Dinah and their sister Sheila waved goodbye to their family and friends and set sail for America . |