Example sentences of "[pron] set [adv prt] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
2 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
3 | When Kalchu and I set out for the headman 's house several mornings later it was bitterly cold . |
4 | I set out for an appointment in Sunderland on the day of its launch , full of hope as York station 's displays indicated the 11.34 InterCity to Newcastle was running ten minutes late . |
5 | Did n't you even stop to consider that , before you set off for an evening drive ? ’ |
6 | She set out for the cemetery where both her parents were buried . |
7 | She had slammed the door as she set out for the Dallam wedding , leaving Odette in tears . |
8 | Flavia was working ; the long days in the tower were intact , only in the evening she set out for the house on the other bay ; the difficult hour at the cafe was cut , even writing became bearable . |
9 | It was once more about five minutes before we set out for the alleyway behind the Love Me Tender massage parlor . |
10 | We set out for the inlet , pulling a shrieking Maha , surrounded by the usual bevy of children and urged on by the boys , maids and especially the Youngest Son , who was always ready to tease and laugh . |
11 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
12 | Most managers want to take commission on any deals they set up for the artist . |
13 | The sky was gun-metal but the deluge had not come when they set out for a cafe . |
14 | But they set out for the Town Hall none the less . |
15 | They set out for the club toward the end of the afternoon . |
16 | Later that day , approximately 3,000 students gathered at ‘ Tianda ’ , Tianjin University from where they set out for the city centre shouting the familiar slogans of the movement . |
17 | A young attendant in a blue uniform respectfully opened the door , and as soon as Luce had been settled into the grey suede luxury of the front passenger-seat they set off for the mainland . |
18 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
19 | He is in London with Jacob , his wife Judy and daughter Julia , 10 , and before they set off for the Odeon , Leicester Square , last night , he said : ‘ None of us would be here today without Jake 's idea . ’ |
20 | So I had a er I got him set up for the morning jobs and then I did the afternoon jobs with him . |
21 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | And at last he set out for the meeting-place . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Checking his watch , he set off for the hilltop once more . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |